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 MADISON, Ala. (WHNT) - Madison Police Chief Larry Muncey says he has recommended one of his officers be terminated after an incident last week that left a 57-year-old Indian man severely injured. The officer has also been charged with third-degree assault. 
 
 Chief Muncey spoke at a news conference Thursday afternoon, discussing the department's use of force investigation into the incident. Police showed video and audio of the officers' encounter with the man. Afterward, Chief Muncey said the actions of Officer Eric Parker did not meet the standards of the Madison Police Department. 
 
 "I sincerely apologize to Mr. Patel, Mr. Patel's family and our community. We strive to exceed expectations," said Chief Muncey. He said he has proposed Officer Parker be terminated, and he has also been arrested for third-degree assault. Parker turned himself in on the charge. 
 
 Chief Muncey said Officer Parker turned himself in to the Limestone County Sheriff's Office on the assault charge. 
 
 The FBI will also conduct a civil rights inquiry, and will turn over its findings to the U.S. Department of Justice to determine if further actions will be taken. 
 
 Parker has been in the news before. WHNT News 19 confirmed he was the victim of an attempted robbery back in August. Officials say Parker was off duty. When Madison Police released information about Parker after the incident, they noted he won two meritorious awards for his work in less than two years on the force. 
 
 The incident took place the morning of Friday, February 6. A neighbor called police about a suspicious man walking in the neighborhood and dispatchers sent two officers there. Click here to listen to the call. 
 
 Dashcam video shows officers arrived at 8:18 a.m. 
 
 Two officers, one of them Parker, spot Patel on the sidewalk. They get out of the patrol car and walk up to him. In the audio, the officers ask Patel for ID, then ask his name. "Do you live here?" the officers ask. "What's your address?" and Patel points at something. The language barrier becomes apparent, because Patel does not speak English. The officers then ask Patel not to jerk away. An officer repeats that, and soon afterward, Patel is thrown down. 
 
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 Members of the local Indian community also attended Thursday's news conference to show their support for Patel. The group included Indian Consul Anil Kumar, who flew in from Atlanta solely to meet with Patel. He pushed his flight back on Thursday to attend the presser. After watching the video, all of them told WHNT News 19 that they are peaceful people and the treatment of Patel was unjust. 
 
 Previous reports 
 
 Earlier this week, WHNT News 19 spoke with the family of the Indian man injured, Sureshbhai Patel. The 57-year-old man does not speak English and has been hospitalized since February 6, when he was out for a walk in his son's neighborhood off County Line Road. 
 
 Offers of help have poured in from as far away as California. Many in north Alabama have also expressed a desire to help. Supporters have set up a gofundme account to help the Patel family with their mounting medical bills. Patel has no insurance. 
 
 Mr. Patel had arrived just six days earlier from India, to help his son and daughter-in-law with childcare. Madison Police, investigating a call about a suspicious person, stopped the 57-year-old as he walked down the family's street. Police admit there was a language barrier and Patel was forced to the ground, suffering injury. 
 
 The family says he was taken to Madison Hospital, with no feeling in his arms or legs. Doctors performed neck surgery the next day. According to the family, he has since regained some feeling in his limbs but remains partially paralyzed. They say doctors expect a long road to recovery. The Patel family filed a lawsuit Feb. 12 against the City of Madison and the Madison Police Department. 
 
 Organizers of the gofundme account have set a goal of $25,000. As of Thursday afternoon, they had raised more than $13,000. 
 
 Related: AshaKiran, local cultural group, discusses holding training workshops with Madison Police to improve communication barrier ||||| Madison police officer Eric Parker today turned himself in to face assault charges, following the severe injuries to an Indian citizen who was walking down the street outside his son's new home. 
 
 Chief Larry Muncey told a small press conference in Madison that he also recommended that Parker be fired for his use of force against a man who committed no crime, did not speak English and could not understand the commands. 
 
 Muncey said "I found that Officer Eric Parker's actions did not meet the high standards and expectations of the Madison City Police Department." 
 
 Five members of the local Indian community sat in the front row, along with Indian Consul Anil Kumar, to watch the video from the patrol cars and listen to the non-emergency call that led to the violent confrontation. 
 
 Call to police about Indian grandfather in Madison 
 
 The caller early Friday morning reports an individual walking on the street near his home. "He was doing it yesterday and today...He's just on foot. He's just kind of walking around close to the garage." 
 
 The operator asks what the man looks like. "He's a skinny black guy, he's got a toboggan on, he's really skinny." 
 
 He adds: "I've lived here four years and I've never seen him before." 
 
 Sureshbhai Patel had only arrived in the United States about a week earlier to help care for his grandson. Patel took a walk each morning, according to his son, Chirag Patel, an engineer who recently bought a home in Madison. 
 
 The caller says: "I'm just kind of following from a distance now." He says he is about to go to work and is nervous to leave his wife with the man walking around outside. 
 
 The dashboard camera shows two officers, field trainer Parker and his trainee Andrew Slaughter, approach the man just after 8 a.m. on Friday. The man stops and turns and steps toward them. The audio offers a clips of the interaction, mainly just what the officers say. 
 
 "What's going on sir?" 
 
 "You what?" 
 
 "India." 
 
 "Where you heading?" 
 
 "Where?" 
 
 "I can't understand you, sir." 
 
 "Where's your address?" 
 
 "Do you have any ID?" 
 
 "India?" 
 
 "Do you live here." 
 
 "Sir, sir, come here." 
 
 "Do not jerk away from me again, or I will put you on the ground. Do you understand?" 
 
 Eventually, the two officers turn Patel around and have his hands behind his back. At one point, as another patrol car pulls up, Parker yanks his arm and slams him into the ground. Patel can not put out his hands to break his fall. He would require cervical fusion and remains in Huntsville Hospital with limited mobility in his limbs. His son as of Tuesday said his father could not move one leg at all. 
 
 The video continues, with officers trying to get the man to stand. One officer begins picking dirt and debris off of him. The concern slowly becomes evident in their voices. 
 
 "He don't speak a lick of English." 
 
 "I tried to pat him down but he tried to walk away from me." 
 
 "I don't know what his problem is but he won't listen." 
 
 "He was trying to walk away." 
 
 "Did you bite your lip?" 
 
 "He OK?" 
 
 Parker turned himself in to Limestone County today, said Chief Muncey. He will face charges of assault third degree. Muncey apologized to Patel, his family and all of Madison. "Our desire is to exceed everyone's expectations." 
 
 Parker was released on a $1,000 bond. 
 
 Muncey said the FBI is conducting a "parallel inquiry to ascertain if there were any federal violations." 
 
 Attorney Hank Sherrod filed suit today in federal court, arguing police used excessive force and that they had no cause to stop Patel on a public sidewalk and search him. 
 
 Sherrod welcomed the news of the dismissal of this officer, as he called for exactly that on Tuesday. But Sherrod said Madison should never have released a statement suggesting that Patel had been looking into garages or was in any way responsible for the incident. 
 
 [Click here for the initial story with details on Sureshbhai Patel, his family and his injuries] 
 
 "They didn't do that on Monday," said Sherrod. "On Monday they were trying to blame Mr. Patel. On Monday they were minimizing this. I'm glad they apparently are starting to do the right thing. But why weren't they doing this on Monday? With those videos." 
 
 Members of the local Hindu community, who asked not to be named, said after the press conference that they are known for non-violence. "We don't hurt nobody, that is our principle...we don't hurt the snake." ||||| Madison police last week roughed up a 57-year-old Indian citizen who was walking on the sidewalk outside his son's home, leaving the older man temporarily paralyzed and hospitalized with fused vertebrae. 
 
 "He was just walking on the sidewalk as he does all the time," said his son, Chirag Patel, this morning. "They put him to the ground." 
 
 No crime had been committed. Madison Police on Monday issued a statement saying the department had suspended the officer and were investigating the use of force in this case. The police statement wished the man a "speedy recovery." 
 
 Chirag Patel, an engineer for one of the many government contractors in Huntsville, said he had just bought a one-way ticket for his father, bringing him from the small Indian town of Pij to his new home in fast-growing suburbs of Madison. 
 
 He said his father, Sureshbhai Patel, was to help his wife care for their new baby, a 17-month-old son, so he could pursue his masters degree in electrical engineering at the University of Alabama in Huntsville. 
 
 "This is a good neighborhood. I didn't expect anything to happen," said Chirag Patel, who recently bought the new house on Hardiman Place Lane. 
 
 [Click here for the update as of Feb. 12, 2015: Alabama police fire, arrest the officer who badly injured Indian grandfather during sidewalk stop | with video of the incident] 
 
 Madison police issued a statement on Monday saying they received a call early Friday about a man looking in garages among the brick homes just south of the city's new high school. 
 
 "The caller, who lives in the neighborhood did not recognize the subject and thought him to be suspicious," reads the statement released by police. 
 
 Hank Sherrod, attorney for the family, this morning said the man was not walking on other people's property nor looking in garages. 
 
 "This is broad daylight, walking down the street. There is nothing suspicious about Mr. Patel other than he has brown skin," said Sherrod. 
 
 But Sureshbhai Patel does not speak English, this being only his second trip to the United States. He had arrived less than two weeks ago. 
 
 The statement by Madison police refers to a "communication barrier." Chirag Patel said his father speaks only Gujarati, and some Hindi. 
 
 Sherrod says the Sureshbhai Patel told the police officers "no English" and repeated his son's house number. 
 
 The police statement says the officer attempted to frisk the man. 
 
 "The subject began putting his hands in his pockets," reads the police statement. "Officers attempted to pat the subject down and he attempted to pull away. The subject was forced to the ground, which resulted in injury." 
 
 Sherrod said he spoke with Sureshbhai Patel at Huntsville Hospital this morning. He said there were two officers present and that Patel was patted down and did not pull away. Sherrod said one officer then pulled Patel's arm up behind him and slung him face first into the ground. He said Patel could not say what happened after that. 
 
 "This is just one of those things that doesn't need to happen," said Sherrod, saying the police escalated to violence without cause and left Patel lying bleeding from his face, paralyzed and in need of paramedics. "That officer doesn't need to be on the streets." 
 
 Sureshbhai Patel was taken by ambulance to Madison Hospital. Hospital staff called his son at work at 9:42 a.m. on Friday. Chriag Patel found his father at the hospital unable to move his legs and with limited motion in his arms. 
 
 From there, due to swelling in the spine, Sureshbhai was transferred to Huntsville Hospital for surgery to fuse two vertebrae. He remains hospitalized. Chirag said his father can now move his right leg a little bit, but the left remains paralyzed. He said his father can raise both arms, but cannot make a tight grip. 
 
 He said his father had no health problems prior to this incident. 
 
 Chirag Patel hopes his father will regain full motion, but he said he was told this would involve lengthy therapy. He is uncertain when his father will be able to leave the hospital. 
 
 Sherrod, a civil rights attorney from Florence, has recently handled several cases involving law enforcement in Madison County. He said the Patel family will sue, but has not yet filed. 
 
 Capt. John Stringer, spokesman for Madison Police, said there are both audio and video recordings of the stop. But he said those recordings were evidence in the internal affairs investigation, and would not be released to the public at this time. 
 
 Madison Police have also refused to identify the officers involved in the stop. 
 
 Madison, a booming bedroom community, is home to about 46,000 residents just outside Huntsville. While largely white and affluent, with a per capita income almost double the state average, the young city is also home to many foreign-born professionals. One in 10 residents speak something other than English in the home, and 8 percent of residents were born in another country. 
 
 Chirag Patel said he came to the United States about 10 years ago to study engineering, and later married a U.S. Citizen. He gained full U.S. citizenship in 2012. He said his father, as an immediate family member, has since been approved as a permanent resident of the United States, meaning Sureshbhai Patel could stay in the country as long as he likes. 
 
 Patel said his father leased farmland in India and the family is not wealthy. He said he was proud of his new home in Madison. 
 
 "It is a dream for me because I came from a very poor family and I worked so hard here," said Patel. He said he chose Madison in large part because of the schools and the opportunities for his son. 
 
 "I'm totally devastated that I might have made a big mistake," said Patel. 
 
 Update on Feb. 11 at 11 a.m. CST: 
 
 Chief Larry R. Muncey of the Madison Police Department on Wednesday morning sent the following email to a concerned citizen and to AL.com: 
 
 "Thank you for taking the time to email our department and share your concerns. As the Chief of Police and community member, I am equally concerned about the incident. I have instructed the Office of Professional Standard's Lieutenant to conduct a thorough investigation into the entire incident. I understand everyone's desire for immediate action, but that would be reckless, and could potentially lead to injustice. I respectfully request your patience while we investigate this incident. When the investigation is complete, we will be open and transparent with our findings." 
 
 Click here for story by our news partners at WHNT News 19. 
 
 Updated on Feb. 12. The following video of the incident has been released by the Madison Police Department.
– The Alabama police officer who partially paralyzed an Indian man out for a walk has been arrested and will likely be fired. The Madison police chief says he's recommended Eric Parker be fired because his use of force against someone who was unarmed, had committed no crime, and does not speak English "did not meet the high standards and expectations of the Madison City Police Department." Parker turned himself in yesterday and will face assault charges, AL.com reports. Police have released audio and video related to Sureshbhai Patel's encounter with police, including video showing Patel being thrown to the ground and audio of the initial call to police from a neighbor of Patel's son, who says, "I've lived here four years and I've never seen him before." (Patel had arrived the week prior to assist with caring for his 17-month-old grandchild.) Parker was actually a field trainer for the police department and had his trainee with him at the time of the confrontation. Audio reveals snippets of their conversation with Patel and highlights the communication barrier: When asked for his address, the 57-year-old just points, WHNT reports. At one point, an officer says, "Do not jerk away from me again, or I will put you on the ground. Do you understand?" As another patrol car pulls up and the officers have Patel turned around with his hands behind his back, Parker slams him forcefully to the ground; because of Patel's arm placement, he could not break his fall. As officers try unsuccessfully to get him to stand back up, their conversation reveals their awareness that "he don't speak a lick of English." The FBI is also investigating to see if federal laws were violated. A GoFundMe campaign for Patel has raised nearly $37,000 so far; the family says he remains partially paralyzed.