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Video captures violent street brawl Saturday night in Detroit's Greektown

Police working to identify individuals shown on video

DETROIT – A violent fight Saturday night in Detroit's Greektown was captured on cellphone video by witnesses. 

The video shows a man laying motionless on the curb at St. Antoine Street and Monroe Avenue. Witnesses captured the video, but no one called police. Police said they did not know about the fight until they were told about the video people were finding on Facebook.

An ambulance did arrive to transport the man to a hospital. His condition is not known at this time.

Detroit police are investigating and working to identify the people in the video. 

Watch more of the video here -- WARNING: There is graphic language and violence.

Witness describes fight

"At one point I thought he was dead, they had beat him so bad," a man only identified as Eugene said.

Eugene, an artist stationed in Greektown every night, was in the middle of Saturday night's brawl.

"I was right here," Eugene said. "Luckily, I'm blessed that I didn't get caught up in it, but I feel sorry for the ones that did, because they really got dogged."

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