From [HERE] Members of the Nation of Islam  today called on Birmingham police and city officials to take action against officers recently shown in a video striking a suspect , Travarious Daniel, who had surrendered to the police. 

The video shows several Birmingham Police officers pile on a suspect, and beat him. Prior to the beating Daniel is standing with arms outstretched as he had apparently surrendered to police. Although over twenty blows are counted on the tape, the Alabama police report described the attack by police as "minimal force."

Speaking at a press conference in Kelly Ingram Park, Minister Tremon Muhammad of Muhammad Mosque 69 said the police department and city should: fire and criminally charge the officers involved in the incident, abolish the act of using bait cars to catch suspects, and set up an independent police review board that would include members of the Nation of Islam. 

Muhammad took issue with the fact that the incident happened just across the street from the Birmingham Police Department's Administrative building on First Avenue North. "It either showed blatant disrespect for Chief  (A.C.) Roper or the officers believed that Chief Roper would stand behind them and their brutal actions," Muhammad said.