Charges dropped against Tyron McAlpin, deaf Black man with cerebral palsy whose Phoenix arrest video prompted outrage

Charges dropped against Tyron McAlpin, deaf Black man with cerebral palsy whose Phoenix arrest video prompted outrage

The top prosecutor in Maricopa County, Arizona, has decided to drop all charges against Tyron McAlpin, a Black man who is deaf and has cerebral palsy, after he was violently arrested by Phoenix police officers. The arrest, caught on body camera, showed officers punching and tasing McAlpin, who was wrongly accused of assaulting and resisting…

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