5 Cops Fired For Beating An Unconscious Man

Five police officers brutally kicked and beat an unconscious suspect after a high-speed chase through Birmingham, Alabama, in an incident caught on camera and discovered a year later<br /> The five officers have been fired, Mayor Larry Langford said at a news conference Wednesday. An internal inquiry is continuing.<br /> The dashboard-cam footage, which officials believe was shot in January 2008, was aired for reporters Wednesday. It showed the end of a 100-mile-an-hour police chase of a van driven by Anthony Warren, suspected of illegal drug activity.<br /> Police had chased the van almost 50 miles, winding from downtown Birmingham to suburban Hoover. The video captured the van knocking down a police officer standing on a roadway, and then turning up an interstate highway ramp, where it flipped over and rolled into a ditch.

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