Ohio Officer Cleared of Taser Incident in Sixth Circuit Reversal

An Ohio police officer used reasonable judgment in deploying a taser on a driver who nearly ran into a patrol car while cruising around with firearms and bags of hard drugs, a split federal appeals court ruled Thursday.

An excessive force claim that a district court ruled could proceed instead must be tossed based on the review of dash cam video that shows the officer, Jordan Moore, was reasonable in his assessment of the danger the suspect presented, two Sixth Circuit judges said.

Moore was right to be concerned after the driver, Ulysses Feagin, didn’t respond to repeated commands to ...