Testimony began Monday in the trial of a Bridgeport police officer accused of beating a man and violating his civil rights.

Officer Clive Higgins is one of three officers charged in the 2011 beating of Orlando Lopez-Soto. A video purportedly shows the officers kicking Lopez-Soto after he was shot with a stun gun following a car chase.

Higgins, who has been a Bridgeport police officer since 2002, faces up to 10 years in prison if convicted.

The other two officers, Elson Morales and Joseph Lawlor, pleaded guilty in June to depriving Lopez-Soto of his civil rights.

Lopez-Soto is serving five years in prison on drug and weapons charges.