FORT MYERS, Fla. - Three Collier County deputies have been cleared of excessive force accusations in June 2009 arrest caught on tape; but now the man targeted by those deputies tells WINK News they still need to be held accountable.

Coroy Flournoy says he's disappointed in the results of a Collier County internal investigation.

"The proof is in the pudding," Flournoy said.  "You can look at the tape, you could tell... "

Flournoy says the dash cam video tells the story, showing deputies pulling him out of the passenger's seat of a car following a high-speed chase on I-75 and hitting him.

But a Collier County investigation found the deputies didn't use excessive force, saying Flournoy was only hit to distract him so he could be cuffed.

"Deputies acted in accordance of policy with agency," said Collier County Sheriff Kevin Rambosk.

The sheriff says the chase leading up to the arrest was dangerous: the driver of the car slammed into a state trooper's vehicle.  Flournoy disagrees; he says deputies tried to run them off the road, all while he was asking driver Kevin Palmer to stop.

"I definitely was trying to get him to stop," Flournoy said.  "We definitely (were) in fear for our lives. I was in fear for my life.  Then when I got out, they just jumped on me."

Flournoy says he's upset the case was handled through an internal investigation.  He feels an outside agency would have come up with a different result.

"Just be held accountable, you know what I'm saying?  That's it.  That's not the case.  They basically just gave them a pass on this.  To me, that's not the truth, that's not the case," Flournoy said.  "Definitely feels like they're getting away with it.  They're getting away with doing whatever they want to do."

Both Flournoy and Palmer were found guilty of charges related to the chase.

The NAACP says it will help Flournoy get a lawyer to challenge the findings about the force used in his arrest.