article_snippet: An ex-Alabama police officer faces ten years in prison after being indicted on a federal charge following a violent confrontation with an Indian grandfather.
article_snippet: The former officer was fired last month from the Madison City Police Department following the incident.
article_snippet: The former officer had only been in the country for two weeks, arriving so The former officer could help take care of The former officer 17-month-old grandson.
article_snippet: Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley previously apologized to the Indian government for the treatment of Mr Patel, calling the Indian government a case of 'excessive force.'
article_snippet: The police chief in Madison, a suburb of Huntsville in the Tennessee Valley of north Alabama, also has apologized for what happened to Mr Patel.