According to WVLT news, the Sheriff was quoted: "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. Therefore, Officer Phillips’ employment with the Knox County Sheriff’s Office is terminated immediately. The investigation will now be turned over to the Knox County Attorney General’s Office to determine any further action.” “This incident provides a perfect example of why we are in the process of purchasing officer worn body cameras (video and audio recordings) so incidents like this will be fully documented.”
Heres the contact email of the attorney general : Let him hear our anger: contact@tndagc.org
This is why sheriffs are subject to re-election.
Keeps them accountable.
There. Fixed it for them.
Sheriff sounds honest and decisive.
“...other two officers are on admin leave...”
Not good enough.
They were standing RIGHT THERE, watching their pig partner choke this kid out.
They need to lose their jobs, now. Turn in the badge, the gun and you no longer get to work in ANY LEO capacity where you have potential life and death decisions over ANYONE.
The pig thug outweighs the kid, is much larger than the kid, and the kid handcuffed.
If that kid had an asthma condition, or some other breathing disorder, and he died, that would be murder. The fact that this buttwipe just walked up and choked him out... while HANDCUFFED...
For the record, I don’t use the word “Pig” lightly for cops; by and large, they’re doing their jobs, oftentimes hazardous.
But this man IS a pig, and he needs to go to jail for attempted murder at worst, aggravated assault and battery at the least.
In a better world, with better people, this POS would be looking over his shoulder for the rest of his life.