BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- Birmingham Mayor William Bell has asked Police Chief A.C. Roper for a program of continued training for police officers, following the Wednesday release of a video showing police repeatedly striking a suspect withhis hands in the air.

Chuck Faush, Bell's chief of staff, said today that while officers go through the training at the academy, there is a need for continuing professional development once they are on the street.

"The mayor has seen the video and is obviously disturbed," Faush said. "He is waiting on the facts. He is waiting on the investigation."

Faush said Bell believes the video indicates the need for more training.

"There's no admission of anything except the fact that internally there's a need to step up training," Faush said.

Attorney Charles Salvagio on Wednesday released the videotaped arrest of his client, 29-year-old Travarious Daniel, who was arrested March 20 at 1:30 a.m. during an undercover operation aimed at cracking down on car break-ins.

The video shows Daniel getting out of the car with his hands in the air as an officer runs up to him, repeatedly striking him in the back of the head. Other officers punched and kicked Daniel as he laid on the ground, the video showed.

The attorney representing those officers,

police and city officials haven't overreacted to the highly-publicized claims made against the officers.

Daniel, a convicted felon, is charged with the unlawful breaking and entering of a vehicle and receiving stolen property. He also faces charges of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.

One officer involved in the arrest is on paid leave pending an investigation by the police department's Internal Affairs Division and the Alabama Bureau of Investigation. A second officer is expected to be placed on leave when he returns from medical leave.

Police have not released the names of the officers involved, of which there were about a half dozen at or near the scene.

: "In attempting to arrest the def. (defendant), he received several cuts to the face and elbow. Minimum force required."

"I noticed he looked like he'd been in a wreck or beaten up," Salvagio said of Daniel. "He looked like he had two heads."