Four officers will be fired, other four disciplined and a supervising sergeant demoted in a case of videotaped beating, Philadelphia’s police commissioner said Monday.

The decision was taken, Commissioner Charles Ramsey said, after a detailed review of the videotape.

On May 5, a television news helicopter filmed 19 police officers who cruelly beat three African-American men they had caught after a shooting. The tape shows images of the officers kicking, punching and striking the suspects with batons, as they were lying on the ground.

Both Commissioner Ramsey and Philadelphia’s mayor considered the beatings inexcusable, but said race was not a reason that fueled them. Ramsey added that at least one of the officers involved in the beating was African-American.

The three suspects were identified by the police as Dwayne Dyches, 24; Brian Hall, 23; and Pete Hopkins, 19. They were believed to have been involved in a shooting at a street corner.

Of the 19 officers on the scene, only eight had physical contact with the suspects. Ramsey said two of the officers being fired are new to the force and can be immediately terminated, while two others are to be suspended without pay for 30 days with intent to dismiss.

Three other officers are being suspended and the supervising agent demoted for not having taken measures against his colleagues’ abusive treatment.