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Three Phoenix police officers will receive 24-hour, unpaid suspensions, and two of them must undergo more training, after the arrest of a deaf man who has cerebral palsy last year, the police chief said Wednesday.

Tyron McAlpin was arrested on Aug. 19 after a man who was involved in a fight at a convenience store pointed to McAlpin — who was walking by — as he was talking to officers, according to a police report.

Video showed McAlpin being arrested almost as soon as police got out of their vehicle. McAlpin was punched and shocked with a stun gun, the video shows.




McAlpin had been charged with felony aggravated assault and resisting arrest, but Maricopa County Attorney Rachel Mitchell dismissed the charges in October after having reviewed the case.

McAlpin's attorney said at the time that the officers’ injuries during the arrest resulted from their “frenzied and violent attack on Tyron.”

Phoenix police said in a statement Wednesday: “The Department identified policy violations” following an administrative investigation into the arrest.

The statement did not identify the officers. A police spokesperson said the department was not naming them because a possible appeal process is pending.




All three offices were suspended without pay for 24 hours, and two of them will be required to undergo additional de-escalation training, the police department said.

The suspensions are for 24 hours in total, so if officers work eight-hour shifts, they would be three-day suspensions, police said.

“Our priority is always the safety and well-being of our community and our officers. We understand the concerns raised by this incident, and we take them seriously,” interim Police Chief Michael Sullivan said.

The incident occurred after someone called 911 about a fight at a Circle K store, police said in an incident report. The caller said a white man was the aggressor and was still inside the store, according to the report.




The man pointed to McAlpin, who is Black, and claimed he assaulted him, police wrote in the report.

McAlpin’s attorney, Jesse Showalter, said police used excessive force and didn’t interview the Circle K employee or anyone else to ask what happened.

Body cam footage shows Tyron McAlpin getting tazed by police officers (Phoenix Police Department)

Phoenix police officers stun Tyron McAlpin on Aug. 19.
In the video, “what you see is simply Tyron trying to avoid being struck repeatedly by the officer who repeatedly swings punches at his face,” Showalter said in October.

There is no indication that the officers knew McAlpin was deaf or had cerebral palsy before they arrested him.

“Our goal is to learn from this and move forward together as a stronger department and community,” Sullivan said in Wednesday's statement.




Showalter called the department's suspensions insufficient. He said the city's news release does not explain "why a 24-hour suspension is the appropriate punishment for beating, Tasing, and falsely charging a man who had committed no crime and posed no threat to anyone."

He filed a lawsuit on behalf of McAlpin against the city of Phoenix and police officers Benjamin Harris, Kyle Sue and Jorge Acosta on March 5, which alleges battery, negligence and violations of Fourth Amendment constitutional protections.

"The City is attempting to avoid responsibility or accountability for its unconstitutional policies and practices that have repeatedly harmed citizens of Phoenix by giving the officers involved a slap on the wrist," Showalter said.

The lawsuit seeks damages, including punitive damages against the officers, but a dollar amount is not specified.
 
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