Judge orders prison sentences for 2 South Carolina officers who used Taser on woman 8 times
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}One small-town South Carolina police officer has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, and a second to a year and a day for unnecessarily shocking a mentally disabled woman with a Taser at least eight times.
Franklin Brown received the longer sentence Monday because he shocked 40-year-old Melissa Davis after she had been handcuffed in April 2013. The other Marion police officer, Eric Walters, stopped Davis early one morning to see if she had broken into a home. Neither Walters nor other officers have explained how the incident escalated so quickly.
Davis was in court but began sobbing as Walters apologized, and was ushered out by her family.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Federal judge Bryan Carwell said the two officers through one bad action ruined the good work of thousands of honest officers.