PHOENIX, AZ — A Black man, who is deaf and has cerebral palsy is facing felony aggravated assault and resisting arrest charges after he was repeatedly punched and tasered by a pair of Phoenix police officers.
The violent and rapid arrest of Tyron McAlpin raises serious questions and could serve as a test case for Phoenix and the Department of Justice as the two battle over whether the police department in America’s fifth-largest city needs federal oversight.
Acting on false claims from a white man under investigation, body camera video shows officers unexpectedly go after McAlpin, punch him in the head at least 10 times, Taser him four times, and wrap their arms around his neck.
They should be charged with assault and battery, like anyone else who did that would be.
It should also be a hate crime against a vulnerable person. Put those fuckers away for 10 years.
Sadly, hate is a legitimate political position, and those in power are not unanimously against hatred being a dominant force within society.
Manslaughter is accidental, so attempted manslaughter is just attempt of murder.
No, manslaughter is just not premeditated. We don’t know whether or not the cops went in trying to kill the man, but they definitely knew that what they were doing had that potential.
https://leppardlaw.com/criminal-law/homicide-lawyers/what-is-attempted-manslaughter/
Lived in a Vet/Cop suburb of Phx. These fuckers are dumb and crazy.
If you need to beat a suspect to do your job, you’re incompetent and should pursue another line of work. Unless of course your job is to beat people…
Well that’s a lovely phrase to know!
I feel like I’ve struggled to express this concept in the past, often in arguments about the police. I’m definitely going to be saying that a lot now.
Not to be pedantic, but you might want to fix that typo. “Purpose”, not “propose”.
Names and addresses of the officers would be a good thing to have out there in public.
I find it’s actually increasingly difficult. More and more of these government thugs have access to private tailored services for LEOs which wipe their online presence entirely. A measure of privacy not offered to the filthy peasants. Some even go under different names, which makes you wonder why they’re so ashamed of their profession.
Kyle Sue is the stupid piece of shit that did this and also wore sunglasses and a hat to court.
I’d start with his.
You should get his name right if you’re going to incite action against him.
Resisting against arrest should be a human right, but instead it’s used as an excuse for murder.
If you hurt someone during arrest, the usual laws apply, so I don’t see a reason for an extra law that punishes humans fight or flight response.
Usually the arrestee wasn’t even resisting. Cops are just trained to yell 'stop resisting’regardless of the situation because they know the body cam footage won’t show what’s actually happening because it’s strapped to the chest of the guy doing the punching.
Absolutely. I wouldn’t comment scrapping that law if it wouldn’t be abused, and in my opinion it doesn’t serve any positives that would outweight it.
Just reduce sentences for cooperating or something. It would be the first incentive of rehabilitation right at the moment of arrest.
They also know it can affect the memory of any eye witnesses Memory is malleable and they try to screw with it and implant the idea that the person they’re arresting WAS resisting.
I’d normally say good luck successfully arguing the deaf guy with cerebral palsy was resisting you in any way that required the need to retaliate that way, but these are cops, so the judge would probably say, “not guilty and also someone give these brave boys in blue a medal!”