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April 28, 2015

South Carolina: 2 Cops Sentenced to Prison for Tasering Disabled Woman 
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In South Carolina, two police officers in the city of Marion have been
sentenced to prison for unnecessarily shocking a disabled woman with a
Taser at least eight times in 2013. Franklin Brown, who shocked the
victim, Melissa Davis, while she was handcuffed and not resisting,
received an 18-month term, while fellow officer Eric Walters was
sentenced to a year. Brown admitted telling fellow officers he shocked
Davis because he "did not want to touch that nasty [expletive]."

 

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