TAMPA, Florida - May 31, 2010 - There are many different ways you can interpret a video posted on YouTube, showing a police officer kicking a man on the ground.

From the view of the police officers, they were using a move they are trained to use when a person is not being compliant, which they say is what was happening.

Then there's the view of the man on the ground and his attorney.

"When I look at the video, I see angry police officers that are using a high level of force," attorney Michael Maddux told 10 Connects.

The video was captured in February following the Gasparilla Knight Parade. It shows the moments after a group of people were kicked out of Gaspar's Grotto because of an argument with bouncers.

It shows three plainclothes officers trying to subdue a man on the ground, who Maddux identifies as his client, 26-year-old Jacob Cowie, who is deaf.

A uniformed police officer is then seen walking up to the scene, trying to help and then kicking the man twice.

While the officers write in Cowie's arrest report that they used force to gain compliance after repeatedly telling him to stop resisting, Maddux says his client never heard the commands.

"All of their screams we're literally falling on deaf ears," said Maddux.