SANFORD, Fla. -- Was a Seminole County bar brawl a case of cops protecting cops or police ganging up on an outsider? This past weekend, an off-duty Sanford police officer working security used a department-issued taser to subdue a man they say was drunk and punching another off-duty officer.

The entire brawl is now under investigation. The man hit with the taser was arrested, but he wasn't charged for attacking the off-duty officer. The arrest report shows he was only charged with "disorderly intoxication," leading some to question if it was serious enough to bring out the taser if the charge was so minor.

In the wee hours of Friday morning, a fight at The Barn involving a Sanford police officer ended when a second officer tasered the one guy not with the department.

"Right now, our current stance is, it is under review," said Cleo Cohen, Sanford Police Department.

The Sanford Police Department said Officer Ricardo Alaya was in uniform and working security when the fight happened. Officer Stephen Santiago was off-duty when the fight erupted with the other bar patron, Aaron Wood. The security officer noticed the men out in the parking lot.

When that security officer approached, Wood apparently followed his order to get up off the ground from where he was fighting with Santiago, but when he refused to take a step back the officer pulled out his taser and fired it.

In his report, Ayala described Wood as being very drunk. But it isn't clear why Wood's only charge would be "disorderly intoxication," if he was trouble enough to require a taser.

Sources question whether higher-ups were trying to sweep the fight under the rug by issuing only a misdemeanor charge. The department doesn't yet have an answer.

"I cannot respond to that, because I don't have all the information and it is under investigation," Cohen said.

When Eyewitness News requested the incident reports Monday morning, Officer Ayala had left it locked in the computer system, so even the communications person couldn't access it to give it to us. She said he may not have been finished writing it yet.