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Fired: Frank Phillips, 47, pictured, was been found
'unsuitable for continued employment,' according to a termination notice posted
Sunday night on the Knox County Sheriff's Office's website
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.
Use of force: The officer begins to choke the student,
Jarod Dotson, center, or activate some kind of pressure point to render him
unconscious
Three to one: The young man did not resist arrest,
according to the photographer who shot the images
College party: As he's handcuffed, the student's knees
begin to buckle as he loses consciousness
The report said Dotson ignored 'repeated
instructions' to go inside and apparently 'began to physically resist officers'
instructions to place his hands behind his back, and at one point grabbed on to
an officer's leg.'
University of
Tennessee Police officers called for backup after the party 'became unruly' and
some of the approximately 800 partygoers began throwing beer bottles, Knoxville
Police Department Sgt. Mike McCarter told knoxnews.com.
UT student Nicolas
Oramas told wate.com of the party: 'When the cops showed up
we saw people throwing bottles at their cars. They had police dogs out
there.'
His officers
responded at 11:56 p.m. to the 'disturbance,' which was spilling into the
street.
McCarter said
estimated 60 officers from three agencies were present at the party, where at
least 10 people were arrested and charged with public intoxication and/or
disorderly conduct.
Distressing: The officer's hands are still on the
student's neck even as he passes out
Incapacitated: The young man sinks to the ground with his
hands cuffed behind his back
Messner captured the
frightening moment in a sequence of photographs that show the young man
complying with Knox County deputies as they lead him to a police van at the
University of Tennessee, before an officer uses two hands to choke the student
until he is unconscious.
Dotson was arrested, along with a number of
friends, during a wild college party celebrating after a week of
finals. Police were called to clear the area at the intersection of 21st and Laurel Streets in Fort Sanders, an area with a high concentration of college students.
According to
photographer John Messner, some college students began to throw beer bottles at
police, who called for backup from the Knox County Sheriff's
office.
Dotson was arrested
and handcuffed, then walked a block to a waiting police van at the University of
Tennessee.
Wild party: College students celebrating the end of finals
spilled out onto the street Saturday night and police were called to clear the
area
Unresisting: Dotson, seen here before the alleged assault,
does not appear to resist as police remove one set of handcuffs to replace them
with another
Threatening: An officer much larger than the student, who
still has his hands behind his back, approaches and lays his hands on the young
man's neck
He went willingly and
did not resist arrest, said Messner.
When they got to the police van, the arresting
deputy's handcuffs were removed from the young man's wrists and replaced with
cuffs from the vehicle.
During the brief
moment his wrists were uncuffed, Dotson let his arms fall by his
sides.
As two officers twist
his arms behind his back, another deputy walks in front of the young man and
wraps his hands around his neck.
The disturbing
sequence of shots show the 21-year-old appear to lose consciousness, his knees
buckling as he sinks to the ground, while the deputy continues to choke him or
activate a pressure point that renders him unconscious.
The officers behind Dotson fiddle with his handcuffs
even as he's being choked.
Arrested: Jarod Dotson, pictured, was arrested and
handcuffed, then walked a block to a waiting police van at the University of
Tennessee
Student: Dotson, pictured left and right, is a student at
the University of Tennessee
When the young man was unconscious, the police
picked him up and the officer who choked him slapped him around the head a few
times before walking off, reports Messner.
All three officers
are Knox County deputies assisting the Knoxville Police
Department.
In 2011, Knoxville
County officers stopped a carload of teenagers and forced them to run in circles
around a bat he kept in the trunk of the car.
Sherriff Jimmy 'JJ'
Jones demoted the five officers involved in the incident.
Jones' action in
disciplining the officers was well-received by the community. He's now up for
re-election, with early voting already taking place.
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