Officials have refused to release body camera footage of an Idaho Springs police officer using a stun gun on a 75-year-old man, citing the need to protect an ongoing criminal case against the officer.

The officer, identified as Nicholas Hanning, was charged last week in the case. Attorney Sarah Schielke, who represents 75-year-old Michael Clark, said the police department and District Attorney Heidi McCollum have since declined all requests to turn over the footage to the victim or his family.

“For the past six weeks, Mr. Clark and his children have begged and implored the police chief Nathan Buseck and Heidi McCollum to release the bodycam videos,” Schielke said.

She said Clark has been hospitalized since the incident and has, at times, been in intensive care.

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“We are running out of time,” Schielke said.

Last week, prosecutors charged Hanning with third-degree assault in connection to the incident, according to a release from the Fifth Judicial District Attorney’s Office. Hanning was released from jail after posting $2,000 bail.

On Thursday, the district attorney’s office said the footage had been provided to the office but had not been released publicly to protect the ongoing criminal case. The district attorney’s office also petitioned successfully to seal Hanning’s arrest affidavit last week.

According to the release, Hanning and another officer responded to a report of an alleged assault at 11 p.m. on May 30. Officers said the caller pointed the officers to a nearby apartment. The officers knocked on the apartment door and Clark answered, holding a “sword-like” weapon.

The release said Hanning, 35, used a stun gun on Clark after he refused to follow commands; however, Schielke said the release misrepresents what happened.

Schielke said Clark answered the door with the sword because he didn’t know the men banging on his door were police and, when instructed, Clark put the sword down. Schielke also said Clark was stunned 19 seconds after the officers yelled at him to “get down on the ground” and “get out here now” because he stood still, unsure of what command to follow.

In addition to being stunned, Clark was tackled, kicked and choked by Hanning, Schielke said.

Clark was hospitalized with heart complications from the incident and other maladies including a burst appendix, Schielke said.

In a statement, Clark’s children claimed the incident “wrecked” their dad’s heart.

“Every second and every minute that goes by with the police being allowed to keep the world in the dark and make everyone believe our dad might have done something to deserve this is torture,” the statement said.

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In a statement Idaho Springs police Chief Nathan Buseck said the police department “took decisive action to address this incident which included a thorough internal investigation along with immediately requesting an outside agency perform a criminal investigation.”

The other officer involved in the incident was not charged and is still employed by the police department. That officer received unspecified discipline from the department, according to a release.

Hanning is scheduled to appear in court on Tuesday.