A B.C. man who was beaten by two transit police officers claims he was the victim of racial profiling and he is now suing the parties involved.

Surveillance footage of the 2011 beating captured inside a Vancouver SkyTrain station shows two transit police officers tackled the then-22-year-old University of British Columbia student to the ground. According to court documents, the young man was punched in the head 10 times and struck with a baton 11 times.

CTV Vancouver obtained the surveillance footage on Thursday, two weeks after one of the officers involved in the attack was sentenced to 12 month probation after pleading guilty to assault causing bodily harm.

Shortly after the beating, Const. Edgardo Diaz-Rodriguez was put on administrative duties with the force, where he continues to receive a salary of approximately $90,000 a year.

The other officer involved in the attack, Michael Hughes, quit the force the year after the incident.

Both men still face investigation under the Police Act. 

The victim, whose identity is protected, bears a three-inch scar from the attack on his head.

"It replays in my mind over and over," he told CTV Vancouver. "I get nightmares from this."

The victim, who is half-black, said after he was kicked down to the ground, he put his hands up.

In a statement provided to the court, the young man said the sound of the baton hitting his head and back resembled “the thud of a drum.

“Looking down at my feet trying to protect my face I saw lots of blood pour from out my head.”

He said at that point he became fearful for his life.

"I knew I could be killed," he told CTV Vancouver.

The officers involved in the beating believed the young man, who at the time was a UBC varsity football player with no previous criminal record, had given them a fake name, and they tried to arrest him.

When he showed resistance, the officers tackled him to the ground.

The officers said apart from providing what they believed was a fake name, the student was found walking out of a fare-paid zone without a fare.

The victim said at the time he had been waiting to meet a friend who was supposed to arrive on a train.

With a report from CTV Vancouver's Jon Woodward