“Officer Gardner violated no department policies.”
They why the retraining? Why the payout?
“No matter what, I don’t start off by feeling that the outcome is that the cops are always wrong.”
Too bad you don’t give the citizen the same standard.
“Too bad you don’t give the citizen the same standard.”
Not true. At the beginning of the video, they both were considered innocent.
It was their actions, words, and behavior during the video, which gave us the basis for forming a conclusion about whether the tasering was justified.
They why the retraining? Why the payout?
Because Officer Gardner was tried in public, on the internet, and found guilty of ‘thought-crime’.
He didn’t actually do anything wrong.
He had the ‘gall’ to say, “Hurts, doesn’t it. You should have listened to me’.
He referred to the event as “He took a ride on the taser” (However the internet jury was not convinced, and ruled that he said ,”I gave him a ride on the taser”).
It was also ruled that in his ‘mind’, Officer Gardner had decided to taser Mr. Massey simply for violating the posted speed limit.