Members of a group called the New Black Panther Party protested in front of the Capitol and in Decatur on Monday, saying the shooting death of a black man in a Decatur raid was racially motivated police brutality.

Yusef Shabazz of Savannah, Ga., regional chief of the organization, said members traveled to Alabama at the request of Freedom Fighters 2000. That group in Decatur has called for an FBI probe into the fatal shooting of an alleged bootlegger by a Morgan County sheriff's deputy.

Investigators have said two deputies were justified in the June 30 shooting that killed 57-year-old James Hulett during a bootlegging raid at his home. A Morgan County grand jury last month decided no indictment was warranted in the shooting death.

Shabazz said the trip to Montgomery also served as a recruitment event as the group attempts to establish a chapter in Alabama's capital.

"Our purpose is to come here and give them a backbone," Shabazz said of the black communities of Montgomery and Decatur. "We're not nonviolent protesters. We don't believe in turning the other cheek."