An African-American couple has a filed a lawsuit accusing Indiana police of excessive force in an incident caught on video. Jamal Jones was in the passenger seat of a vehicle driven by his partner, Lisa Mahone, whose two children were in the back. The family was on their way to visit Mahone’s dying mother in a hospital when police pulled them over because Mahone was not wearing her seat belt. The officers ordered Jones, who was not driving, to exit the vehicle. But he says he refused out of fear the officers would harm him. Police responded by breaking the car’s window and tasering Jones in his seat. Mahone’s son captured the incident on video.

Jamal Jones: “I’m not the operator of this vehicle, so if you do that — all right, I’m not in operation of this vehicle.”

Officer: “Ma’am, are you going to open the door?”

Lisa Mahone: “Why do you say somebody’s not going to hurt you. People are getting shot by the police …”

Jones: “Oh s—t. Damn!”

Police say Jones refused to follow their orders and that officers feared for their safety after seeing him reach for the back. On Tuesday, Jamal Jones and Lisa Mahone spoke out after filing their suit.

Jamal Jones: “It felt like my civil rights was just thrown out the window, along with my body. I tried to explain to the officer. My first thing that I said to him, 'My kid's in the car. My mom is passing. Can we please just make this as quick as possible? Here you go, our information. Can we go to the hospital?’ He threw that out the window. It just — it didn’t feel right. I felt — I felt black again.”

Lisa Mahone: “At the end when it was over with, I looked at all the officers, and I said, 'Do you know' — I said, 'I do not feel like I have police officers in my presence right now.' It felt like I was just — it felt like it was nothing but gangbangers around me.”

According to their complaint, two of the officers involved were named in four previous federal lawsuits involving “the use of excessive force against citizens and arresting citizens without probable cause.”