Two young women caught on camera being kicked and hit by a police officer in Utrecht have made a formal complaint about their treatment, their lawyer told the television current affairs programme Nieuwsuur on Wednesday evening. Footage circulating on social media shows one of the women, wearing a black hijab, laughing as she is led away by a police officer while another woman films the incident. The two women have also accused the police officer of using racist language by telling them “you don’t belong in this country”, lawyer Anis Boumanjal told Nieuwsuur. Claims that one of the women had been involved in shoplifting are “entirely incorrect,” Boumanjal said in a statement later on Thursday. “I consider the kick and the use of the truncheon to be out of proportion because the police could have dealt with the incident without using violence,” he said.