ORLANDO, Fla. — Attorneys spent the day Monday in an Orange County courtroom, trying to seat a jury in a former Orlando police officer's trial.
Investigators said video shows former Orlando Officer William Escobar punching and kicking a handcuffed suspect last year.
Escobar is on trial, charged with battery and perjury.
During questioning Monday, one prospective juror told attorneys that he knew Escobar and talked with him at church about Escobar's firing from the police department.
Raw: Suspect kicked by officer
The potential juror said Escobar told him OPD fired him. He told the judge that he believed he could still be an impartial juror.
Videos of the incident, from an OPD officer's bodycam and from the alleged victim's sister, are at the center of the trial.
Prosecutors said Escobar punched, dragged, then kicked the compliant, handcuffed suspect Refus Holloway. They said he then lied about the incident.
Another officer said Escobar saw the bodycam video the same night in March 2014 and said it looked bad.
Prosecutors say Escobar did not disclose the bodycam video to prosecutors in the case against Holloway.
Prosecutors say Holloway was not the man police were looking for that night ,and all of the charges against him were dropped.
The trial is expected to last four days. Each of the misdemeanor charges carries a maximum sentence of one year in jail.