I anticipated this response. A better description may be that the usage was technically lawful, but it was NOT reasonable. However, when you have law enforcement agencies reviewing themselves, they protect their own. Hopefully the ensuing lawsuit causes changes in the use of tasers.
This quote about Gardner disturbs me:
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After the Tasering, when a backup officer arrived and asked what happened, Gardner replied: "Oh, he took a ride with the Taser."
"That comment was inappropriate," Davenport said Friday.
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I believe it shows what the troopers intent was all along.