PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Two police officers charged with wrongly beating a man who has since died in a shooting were acquitted on Monday.

Sean McKnight and Kevin Robinson were acquitted of charges of aggravated assault and conspiracy and counts related to what prosecutors alleged were false arrest and prosecution, The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/1Su8IOX) reported.Prosecutors alleged that the officers beat Najee Rivera without provocation during a May 2013 traffic stop and then prosecuted him to try to cover up their actions. The officers said Rivera fled after running a stop sign and they mistakenly believed he was a drug courier because others had been using scooters and ATVs to move guns and drugs.The officers were charged after Rivera's girlfriend found neighborhood surveillance video that prosecutors said contradicted their allegation that Rivera attacked them. The district attorney also withdrew charges including aggravated assault and resisting arrest against Rivera.Defense attorneys said McKnight, an officer since 2006, and Robinson, an officer since 2007, used only the force needed to subdue Rivera and did not touch him after he stopped resisting.Both officers testified that Rivera wrestled with Robinson and struggled to avoid being handcuffed by McKnight, who used his baton to subdue Rivera. McKnight said Rivera grabbed his baton, collapsing it, but he regained possession and struck Rivera on the side of the head with the butt. Rivera was treated for a broken eye-socket bone.Rivera died in December, 15 days after he was wounded during a street fight in the Kensington neighborhood.Neither officer commented after their acquittals, but Robinson's attorney, Fortunato Perri Jr., said he believed the security videotape was responsible for the jury's decision. Jurors were allowed to review the video twice before announcing their decision.A spokesman for the prosecutor's office declined to comment on the acquittals but praised the hard work of jurors.Another jury on Friday acquitted a former officer who had been with the same police district of charges that he hurled racial slurs and threatened to kill a black man following an off-duty traffic mishap in 2013. That ex-officer, Edward Sawicki III, was present Monday to congratulate McKnight and Robinson.---Information from: The Philadelphia Inquirer,

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