Austin Police Not the First to Use Tasers

Courtesy Austin Criminal Defense Lawyer  Wed, 01/30/2008 - 4:20am

When an Austin police officer’s dashboard camera showed the tasering of a 5-miles-an-hour-over-the-speed-limit driver from Thanksgiving weekend 2006 it (fortunately) made the news. Eventually, the officer was suspended for three days. The official explanation of the suspension?

[The officer] did not display an attitude consistent with Department policy and did not comply with the Department’s policy regarding the use of a taser.

Electronic Village has the video of the incident . Salad wrote a lengthy substantive post on...


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