Posted on 04/28/2014 4:32:45 AM PDT by raybbr
Full Headline: Tennessee sheriff's deputy is FIRED after he was caught on camera choking an unresisting college student until he passed out
A sheriff's deputy in Knox County, Tennessee has been fired after he was caught on camera allegedly choking a university student Saturday night.
Frank Phillips, 47, was been found 'unsuitable for continued employment,' according to a termination notice posted Sunday night on the Knox County Sheriff's Office's website.
'In my 34 years of law enforcement experience, excessive force has never been tolerated. After an investigation by the Office of Professional Standards, I believe excessive force was used in this incident,' Sheriff Jimmy 'J.J.' Jones said.
'Therefore, Officer Phillips' employment with the Knox County Sheriff's Office is terminated immediately.'
Jones added that the investigation will now be turned over to the Knox County Attorney General's Office to determine any further action.
John Messner, a freelance photographer in Knoxville, captured Phillips with both hands around the neck of University of Tennessee student Jarod Dotson in Fort Sanders after a party. The 21-year-old can be seen falling to his knees after the man's grip apparently renders him unconscious.
Phillips has been with the Sheriff's Office since 1992. Dotson, of Powell, is an architecture major at the college.
Authorities say Dotson was publicly intoxicated and drinking from a cup 'that had an odor of an alcoholic beverage' at 23rd Street and Laurel Avenue, when he was arrested.
He was charged with public intoxication and resisting arrest. He was released Sunday morning on a $500 bond, the sheriff's office said.
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In before the donut muncher a$$ kissing crowd.
will he also be charged with attempted murder?
I know, stupid question.
Tennessee cops have no monopoly on brutality.
Buffalo NY cops beet a handcuffed man this weekend also.
http://blogs.buffalonews.com/live/2014/04/youtube-video-alleges-buffalo-police-brutality.html
I’m just glad the guy wasn’t walking a dog as well.
Tennessee cops have no monopoly on brutality.
Buffalo NY cops beat a handcuffed man this weekend also.
http://blogs.buffalonews.com/live/2014/04/youtube-video-alleges-buffalo-police-brutality.html
Take that away, and his punishment would be loss of coffee fund privileges for a week.
Well that was quick —
Whatever the case, it’s never a good idea to resist arrest.
Why the he!! is the London Daily Mail or whatever paper doing the bird-dogging on our TN cops who are doing behavior mod on our college kids on one of our college campuses? Where is the American Free Press in all this?
It was merely an innocent demonstration of how to remain silent per the Miranda warning.
That copper looks like a Bubba. The type that 40 years ago would have been smiling after beating black voters and bombing a church.
Now that the taxpayers won’t be footing the bill, the kid should sue the bastard hard, irrespective of any criminal charges.
But, it looks as if he's standing there with his hands cuffed behind his back before he gets choked out. That's resisting arrest?
Without the camera it didn't even happen.
Fire 'em all.
first it was the black jacks then billy clubs and then night sticks and now hands......
must there be no means of restraining a suspect?
Good old boys on the beat have been replaced by jack-booted thugs. It is now a cultural thing, don’tcha know?
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