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An incident during which a Baltimore police officer was assaulted as he tried to make an arrest has polarized local law enforcement.

Video surfaced late Friday night of a city police officer being kicked and punched by a crowd of people as he struggled with a suspect on the ground. The officer was not seriously injured during the attack, and the crowd eventually dispersed.

The video sparked condemnation from Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan and other local leaders.

“Crime in Baltimore is out of control,” said Sgt. Mike Mancuso, president of Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3. “[The incident is] indicative of a broken city that is being led by people who have absolutely no real-time crime plan or, it seems, even know how to formulate one.”

Mancuso laid blame for the attack on the city’s current elected leadership, which he characterized as asleep at the wheel when it comes to combating violent crime in the city.

“Until new leadership is elected and appointed, this lack of respect for the law and those who enforce it will continue and deepen,” he said.

The union boss’s words triggered a sharp rebuttal from the city’s state’s attorney, Marilyn Mosby, who accused the union of “fanning the very flames they then call on me to put out,” according to Fox News.

Violent crime is on the rise in Baltimore, where the per-capita murder rate record was recently broken. January has been an especially violent month for the city. Twelve people were shot during eight separate shootings last Saturday.

The city’s mayor said police were still searching for the people seen stomping on the officer in Friday night’s attack.