Off-duty Queensland police officer filmed head-butting 14-year-old Indigenous boy

Footage captured in the Queensland town of Dalby shows an altercation between an off-duty police officer and a group of youths in which one teenager was seen to be head-butted. Photograph: 7News

An off-duty police constable has been filmed head-butting a 14-year-old Indigenous teenager in the face in a late-night altercation outside a McDonald’s in regional Queensland.

The state’s police commissioner, Katarina Carroll, said an Ethical Standards Command investigation has been launched, describing the officer’s actions as “inappropriate”.