This Video Takes Police Brutality To A Whole New Level

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Sheriff’s Officer Frank Phillips was caught brutally choking a male student in Tennessee, squeezing 21-year-old Jarod Dotson until he fell to his knees. Find out how the photos were revealed, and what action the Sheriff’s Office immediately took. Tweet: http://ctt.ec/2o0HS

Police brutality is often not taken seriously within the judicial system. Do you think the Knoxville County Sheriff did the right thing by firing Officer Phillips? Should more police and sheriff’s departments be held to the same standards? Let us know in the comments!

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  1. Since the police desire to be Big Heroes by making WAR on their own, unarmed, citizens, I say: SEND THEM TO IRAQ TO FIGHT ISIS!!!

  3. Sigh. This is one of the rare occurrences when “Police Brutality” is applicable, but poorly used as a generalized name for behavior. This is merely excessive force, only on the choking, and that may even be over turned and he may get his job back when more is found out about the situation. Let’s evaluate what we know:

    A) For the cop
    1 – the college kid resisted arrest, was drunk, and there were over 800 other people in his general vicinity who were also drunk and came pretty close to being a riot. We’re lucky that there wasn’t a ton of property damage considering a group of 800 drunk people is most likely not the most well behaved group. Knowing the scenario in which the event occurred, it’s justifiable that officers would be on edge and take resisting arrest very seriously, as it could potentially have become a riot of 800+ drunk young people in a residential area.

    2 – Yes, grabbing someone’s leg is legitimately threatening. It’s not hard to pull someones leg out from under them, and when they are on the ground they are at a severe disadvantage. That is one of the most assured way to get hurt by a cop and give him perfect justification, by going for his legs. Based on his actions, the cop had established reason to manhandle, taze or otherwise restrain him.

    3 – A choke hold is a legitimate defense strategy. The cop doesn’t look angry, but he is focusing yes. If you know anything about defense you would know that a mere 5 lb’s of pressure is enough to crush a mans Adams apple into his throat, which is in most cases fatal. If the cop wasn’t focusing, he might apply too much pressure and that kid would be dead, not just incapacitated. The officer applied the correct amount of pressure and performed the defense maneuver correctly. Utilizing a combat maneuver correctly, especially a nonlethal maneuver like a choke hold, is not brutality.

    4 – The Knox county Sheriff department has a history of being a very “friendly” police department. That’s because Knox county is known for Knoxville and is a constant location for party goers. The crime rate for Knoxville is terrible for the size of the town, but that still takes a back seat to the fact that the party goers are the main source of income and those who control the seat of power don’t want to piss those kids off. The Sheriff most likely fired the cop not because of brutality, but because he has to maintain the image that he’s on the side of the college kids, the crowd of 800+ drunk kids and the thousands of others like them in that community. It’s business, and in business you suck up to your customers, you don’t drive them away. So Knox County would have fired this cop for doing his job essentially, because instead of arresting a scummy looking criminal, a thief or a minority citizen he arrested a college kid.

    B) For the college kid

    1 – As we can see in the video, the college kid was already for the most part detained. The cop came up to him and put him in a choke hold. The choke hold did it’s job, but it doesn’t appear to have been needed at all, hence it can qualify as excessive force.

    2 – We don’t actually know much about how severe the crowd was. We know that there were 800+ college kids at the party, and we know that it spilled out onto the street and cops were called. As far as I know, there was no property damage. This means that while there may have been one or two unruly kids, it does not look like there was any immediate or apparent threat justifying the use of force.

    3 – There were two officers handcuffing the kid when the third put him in the choke hold. It’s very hard to believe that any one of them would have a problem detaining that college kid, knowing that every one of them had to pass the physical requirements involved with becoming an officer, and since as far as anyone knows he’s just a college kid and not some hardened killer with a record putting that much focus on just him would qualify for excessive force.

    As you can see, there are already enough valid points for both sides to appear to be correct. The totality of the circumstances would determine whether or not the officer was justified or not. That being said, it would be lovely if the news team would actually provide the facts they are, as they have them, and not just what their opinion about the situation is. It is the duty of journalists to inform the people of exactly what is happening, free of bias, not to sensationalize the news or to promote their specific ideals and beliefs.

    1. Actually

      1) The kid may or may not have resisted arrest, the Cops have a very LONG history of violence, corruption and lieing… Resisting arrest is alot like probable cause it could mean anything the police dream up.

      2) Grabbing the leg-being threatening depends on what was actually going on.. Was he trying to catch or maintain his balance once on the ground? After all he was intoxicated…

      3) Actually it takes around 50 Ibs to crush the human throat, not 5 Ibs as wiki answers would have you believe. And, in this particular case the choke hold cannot be used as a defense strategy bc the arrestee wasn’t resisting arrest at that point, he was cooperating. Turning to the inverse of Defense- Assualt.

      4) The hostility of the crowd is unimportant to the topic at hand, even if it was the police are trained to reckonize and react accordingly to grown rates of hostility. Even though most cops are ill equpped mentally to deal with complicated situations that unfold and often act primatively, like what we just witnessed in this video as a decent example..

      Finally, the bottom line is, the kid at that moment presented no threat to himself or others and was strangled for NO REASON! period. Cops are given more authority then the common citizen and therefore should be help to higher accountablility for his/her actions. It shouldn’t be a free for all for the police like it is today for them. So, I congratulate actually, the Sheriff’s Office for understanding the events that unfolded for what they were and fired their officer.. Job well done.

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