A California police officer failed to convince a federal court that he acted reasonably when he deployed a Taser on a suspect who had doused himself with gasoline and was holding a lighter.
A jury should consider the suspect’s excessive force lawsuit, because reasonable minds can differ regarding whether city of Weed police officer John Gale ignored the known risk of using a Taser on highly flammable material, Judge Troy L. Nunley said Thursday for the US District Court for the Eastern District of California.
In an effort to get his family’s attention, Paul J. Hall poured gasoline on his ...
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