Black teens speak out after viral video shows them being forcibly arrested

A Black teenager at the center of a now-viral video showing an encounter with law enforcement that turned violent is urging others to stand up against police brutality.

A Black teenager at the center of a now-viral video showing an encounter with Maryland law enforcement that turned violent is urging others to stand up against police brutality. "Don't be afraid to stand up for what you believe in," Brian Anderson, 19, told ABC News in an interview airing Tuesday on "Good Morning America." Anderson, who is from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, said he was walking with his four friends, who are also Black, on the tourist-packed boardwalk in Maryland's coastal resort town of Ocean City on Saturday evening when they were stopped by public safety officers who asked him to not use his vape pen. According to a press release from the Ocean City Police Department, the officers saw Anderson resume vaping after informing the group of a local ordinance prohibiting smoking and vaping outside of the designated areas on the boardwalk. Anderson and his friends claimed that he stopped vaping but kept the pen in his hand as they continued walking. One of his friends, 18-year-old Jahtique John Lewis, said they then noticed that they were being followed by the officers who "kept harassing us."