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>> reporter: the transgender community says beatings like this one happens often but this time it was caught on tape. they are trying to capitalize on the tension. it is tough to watch. a woman gets a beating by two females. we now know the name of one suspects be police say teonna brown acted with a 14-year-old girl. reached out to sandy rawls with transunited. she says the abuse is nothing new. >> this was posted on youtube. this happens all the time in the transgender community. >> reporter: some condemn the person behind the video camera but the recording may be the best thing to...

eliminating it from our ranks. >> the fbi says the 2 year long investigation began with the city police department and involved wire taps and electronic surveillance. >> there's absolutely nobody in this police department that should be hanging their head right now that the police department did their job. they routed out corruption, alleged corruption within their own ranks and should be very proud of that effort. >> reporter: 15 of those police officers had their first court appearance here at the federal courthouse here today. police are trying to track down two of the other polic...

making more than $14,000 over two years. >> i personally took the badges from every one of those men who were arrested today. >> reporter: commissioner bealfield said the officers were arrested after they were told to report to the academy for an equipment inspection, a message he chose to send to the force. >> we can't give quarter to corruption. we can't and we won't. and we will exhaust every means and every resource to eliminating it from our ranks. >> reporter: fbi wire taps recorded one officer bragging to the majestic owner that he told a citizen, i will not let anything bad h...