The mother of two teenage girls arrested during a violent encounter with police in March has sued the city of Poughkeepsie for false arrest and using excessive use of force during the incident, which was captured in a video that went viral.

The lawsuit, filed Sunday in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, stemmed from a March 11 confrontation between Officer Kevin D. VanWagner and sisters Jamelia Barnett and Julissa Dawkins. According to the suit, the children were part of a group of witnesses to a fight that spilled over from an earlier confrontation near the intersection of Church Street and Hammersley Ave. in Poughkeepsie, though neither girl was personally involved in the disputes.