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04-01-2011, 12:31 AM
(Reuters) - Police have placed two officers on paid administrative leave as part of an investigation into the apparent beating of a black man that was caught on tape.
Birmingham Mayor William Bell also called for more training on the appropriate use of force by police after the man's attorney released video of the incident to media this week.
"The mayor is disturbed by what he has seen of the video," the major's chief of staff, Erskine "Chuck" Faush Jr., said on Thursday.
A security video captured the March 20 run-in between police and 29-year-old Travarious Daniel.
According to a police report, undercover officers outside a nightclub chased Daniel after observing him take the keys of a parked car and remove a GPS, a Dell computer and a carton of cigarettes that he then put into his own car.
Daniel, who had worked at the nightclub as a security guard, was arrested and charged with receiving stolen goods and breaking and entering into a vehicle.
In the video, viewed on Thursday by a Reuters reporter, Daniel appears to raise his hands in surrender as a white police officer throws him to the ground and beats him on the back and head. A second officer also appears to strike Daniel.
In January, a jury cleared two Birmingham police officers of brutality charges. In that case, a total of five white officers were seen beating a black man in a video that surfaced in 2009.
All five officers were fired, but the two officers who were acquitted are now trying to get their jobs back.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/01/us-alabama-video-idUSTRE73000T20110401
Birmingham Mayor William Bell also called for more training on the appropriate use of force by police after the man's attorney released video of the incident to media this week.
"The mayor is disturbed by what he has seen of the video," the major's chief of staff, Erskine "Chuck" Faush Jr., said on Thursday.
A security video captured the March 20 run-in between police and 29-year-old Travarious Daniel.
According to a police report, undercover officers outside a nightclub chased Daniel after observing him take the keys of a parked car and remove a GPS, a Dell computer and a carton of cigarettes that he then put into his own car.
Daniel, who had worked at the nightclub as a security guard, was arrested and charged with receiving stolen goods and breaking and entering into a vehicle.
In the video, viewed on Thursday by a Reuters reporter, Daniel appears to raise his hands in surrender as a white police officer throws him to the ground and beats him on the back and head. A second officer also appears to strike Daniel.
In January, a jury cleared two Birmingham police officers of brutality charges. In that case, a total of five white officers were seen beating a black man in a video that surfaced in 2009.
All five officers were fired, but the two officers who were acquitted are now trying to get their jobs back.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/01/us-alabama-video-idUSTRE73000T20110401