Video in Phoenix’s violent arrest of deaf man with cerebral palsy

Many police need extreme mental health treatment, NOW! Otherwise, they will end up bankrupting the towns with lawsuits. $3.5 million - WTF! For what happened to him and with the advent of ICE, many others, the lawsuit reward number should be so much higher.

I asked ChatGPT for an update on this case. 

Legal Developments: Charges & Lawsuits

• Criminal case: In a preliminary hearing on October 1, 2024, a Maricopa County judge found probable cause to proceed with criminal charges. However, those charges have since been dismissed ABC7 ChicagoYouTube.

• Discipline: In March 2025, Phoenix PD issued 24‑hour unpaid suspensions to the three officers involved, and two were mandated to attend de‑escalation training. No further employment penalties were reported The Guardian.

• Civil claim: McAlpin filed a $3.5 million notice of claim against the city and the officers in December 2024. That lawsuit is still pending as of the latest reports The GuardianABC7 Chicago.

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📌 Summary Timeline

Date	Event
Aug 19, 2024	McAlpin arrested, assaulted, tasered; bodycam video later released
Oct 1, 2024	Judge found probable cause to advance criminal charges
Dec 2024	McAlpin filed a $3.5 M civil rights notice of claim
Mar 26, 2025	Officers suspended (24‑hrs unpaid), some required de-escalation training
Unspecified	Criminal charges ultimately dismissed

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✅ Current Status

• Criminal charges are no longer active—dismissed after initial probable cause ruling.

• Internal discipline: minimal—short unpaid suspension and de-escalation training.

• Civil litigation: McAlpin’s $3.5 million claim is open and ongoing.

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🔄 Broader Context: Phoenix PD Under Federal Scrutiny

In June 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice released a comprehensive civil‑rights investigation concluding Phoenix PD engaged in a “pattern or practice” of discriminatory and excessive force, particularly against Black, Hispanic, Native American, disabled, and homeless individuals. The McAlpin case was cited as emblematic of systemic failure to protect vulnerable persons despite existing policies on paper The GuardianDepartment of Justicepbs.org.

Cochise County Courts - 4 years later and you're still wrong for terrorizing me

COCHISE COUNTY COURTS - HAVE YOU STOPPED TERRIZING CITIZENS YET OVER YOUR DRESS CODE? It's been almost 4 years since I was threatened at at the court in Bisbee with a warrant for a failure to appear even though I was there. It's still traumatic though I go forward despite your terrorist threat. You know how police treat people like me.

I wore the best I had and the police at the court threatened to issue a warrant for my arrest for a failure to appear even though I was there on a court ordered family health issue. Jeans and a tank top was my crime against an unwritten law that put my life in danger of execution by court cop.

This is Arizona. It get's hot here, especially for someone with epilepsy. I had a grand mal seizure in 2014 plus 3 more that sent me to the hospital for days. No mercy for me. Just terror so bad I passed out on the courthouse stairs. A warrant for my arrest for failure to appear even though I was there.

I live in McNeal and could not have made it back in time for the court in Bisbee. I felt as though I was being set up for execution, especially in light of Miracle Valley over a warrant.

The horror has stayed with me, overcome daily, as I still have that ugly trump orange prison jacket I had to wear as I walked through court to get to the hearing.

Without handcuffs I was also in danger of being mistaken for a prisoner who had broken free of their cuffs. Really it was the ugliest orange I've ever seen - I was in danger of being caught dead in a prison jacket by a police error. If you don't understand, the jacket was a target for the uninformed. Any police officer could have executed me for not being cuffed outside of the court.

Really, jeans & a tank top was my crime against your unwritten dress code. I read everything on line at the time and there was no court dress code. I broke no written law and the result is years of pain.

I have not been back to Bisbee since.

What's next? Are you just going to murder me on the streets of McNeal since you can't find any law I've broken. Within a couple of years of that horror the county also doubled the land required to open a farm from 10 to 20 acres. If I had done what I came here to do, open a farm, I would have been a criminal because this place is only 10 acres.

I DID NOTHING WRONG! When the police came to where I live they were so nice when they recommended my stepdaughter go to court for help to get treatment. No crime was committed by her. A telemarketer called when he heard her screaming at us. She's diagnosed.

[I won't even go into the shock of police cars pulling up for the crime of making noise when even my neighbor across the street was staying with us due to her health issues. Is this is a county that persecutes people who do their best to help others?]

The court date came. Then, I was turned over to the court police to be terrorized after the sheriff's men had completed what felt like a set up when I got to court.

If I had not put on that ugly jacket or a t-shirt, I would not be alive today. The t-shirt was dirty. I would not have handled an arrest warrant and though I am a committed non-violent person, the police would have shot me dead as a result of the words that would come out of my mouth.

I'm 70 and I HAVE NEVER BEEN ARRESTED IN MY LIFE. 4 YEARS LATER THE HORROR OF THAT DAY OF JUDICIAL TERROR LIVES ON AGAINST ME FOR BREAKING AN UNWRITTEN DRESS CODE!

Search MIRACLE VALLEY to understand what you did.

Is there any way for the court to not terrorize people with a warrant for their arrest at least in a family health matters for not having the clothes you want? There is no Saks Fifth Avenue in Bisbee! It is difficult enough to deal with family health issues without the court terrorizing people.

What excuse do I have to look out for now all these years later to not be entrapped in a legal snare without breaking a law so the police can come and Breonna Taylor me?

4 years later and I still don't have the answers to my questions.

PLEASE STOP DOING THIS TO PEOPLE - IT IS EVIL. THERE IS NO MERCY AND JUSTICE IN COURT FOR ME.

I PRAY IT'S THERE FOR OTHERS.

Penalties For Screaming In Arizona

Woman punched by Cop in Flagstaff, Arizona

Does anybody else remember when it was legal to be human in America? One can be arrested in Arizona for screaming, or in the case of the video above, punched in the head. So much for freedom of speech and religion.

In the 1980's I was a volunteer suicide prevention counselor for Dr. Norman Vincent Peale's hotline in NYC. I doubt that even he could comprehend that one could go to jail for going outside and screaming 

"I CAN DO ALL THINGS THROUGH CHRIST WHO STRENGTHENS ME".

Awhile back I called my local police station and asked the question 'If I go outside and scream could I be arrested?' The police told me yes I could be arrested unless I own property and screamed on my own property.

So I didn't go out and scream since the consequences were worse than the pain experienced. Even though I've had 2 major and a series of minor brain seizures in the last 2.5 years, one a grand mal that killed me, I'm keeping the stress down, pushing it inside. It's the law.

Two Brain Seizures In AZ In Six Months - Is USA South West Being Fried? from J. Nayer Hardin

After this election, where it's illegal for me to vote due to Voter ID laws passed in 2010 (I was legally registered to vote before that), the urge to just scream is powerful once again. One does not have to do anything to be framed for a crime for whatever reason the police decide. Out here the police are not above planting evidence as documented in the video below

 

"Uploaded on Oct 15, 2010

Video shows Arizona police officer Richard Chrisman involved in shooting planting crack pipe on homeless woman. Said it was 'just for fun'. Officer Richard Chrisman is on a list of 'problem police officers' years before his involvement in a deadly shooting."

So, I am doing my best not to be at the mercy of police who terrorize citizens for sport. Since the time to deal with a crisis, like the police planting a crack pipe on me like they did to the woman above, I am working to be able to have a right to honest speech. Not yelling fire in a crowded theater, just the right to go outside and make noise. 

Since I tried the police office, who would make the decision to execute me or not if I screamed, I called my local prosecutor's office. They told me that the penalties for a scream if someone calls the police (I would not know that until after I screamed) are:

Minimum - Nothing (not counting legal fees and lost time in jail).

Maximum - up to 3 years probation, $2,500 fine (plus the cost of an attorney) and 6 months in jail.

In both places I was referred to AZ state revised statue 13-2904 

http://law.justia.com/codes/arizona/2005/title13/02904.html

"2005 Arizona Revised Statutes - Revised Statutes §13-2904  Disorderly conduct; classification

A. A person commits disorderly conduct if, with intent to disturb the peace or quiet of a neighborhood, family or person, or with knowledge of doing so, such person:
1. Engages in fighting, violent or seriously disruptive behavior; or
2. Makes unreasonable noise; or
3. Uses abusive or offensive language or gestures to any person present in a manner likely to provoke immediate physical retaliation by such person; or
4. Makes any protracted commotion, utterance or display with the intent to prevent the transaction of the business of a lawful meeting, gathering or procession; or
5. Refuses to obey a lawful order to disperse issued to maintain public safety in dangerous proximity to a fire, a hazard or any other emergency; or
6. Recklessly handles, displays or discharges a deadly weapon or dangerous instrument.
B. Disorderly conduct under subsection A, paragraph 6 is a class 6 felony. Disorderly conduct under subsection A, paragraph 1, 2, 3, 4 or 5 is a class 1 misdemeanor."
 
When I read that again I called the prosecutor's office back to get their definition of the word "intent", since my intent would be to relieve stress, a leading cause of death in America, not to disturb the peace. 

Laughing, praying and screaming can be at the same decibel level, so now that I think about it, since I laugh loudly, I'm going to have to get a grip on that. I was asking for the guidelines for how do the police determine "intent". 

The prosecutor's office did not know, told me they already answered my question and I was referred to 

www.azbar.org

I'll update here if they get back to me. Sent them this article's link and note

"http://nayerpod.blogspot.com/2016/11/penalties-for-screaming-in-arizona.html

What is the definition of "intent" in AZ state revised statue 13-2904

"A person commits disorderly conduct if, with intent to disturb the peace or quiet of a neighborhood, family or person, or with knowledge of doing so, such person:"

If my intent is to relieve the pain pressure from the series of seizures I've had but it disturbs the peace, can the local police legally execute me if they think the phone is a gun? I've never had nor will I ever have a gun, so if they execute me tonight for posting this, I AM NOT SUICIDAL, I JUST NEED TO SCREAM! THIS ELECTION IS TOUGH ON MANY PEOPLE."

Regardless, LORD BLESS YOU!