DoorDash driver’s video shows officer firing stun gun in Tennessee traffic stop
by AP in Nashville from US news | The Guardian on (#5XS8X)
Local district attorney's office calls for investigation following incident involving police officer Evan Driskill and Delane Gordon
A Tennessee police officer who used his stun gun on a DoorDash driver wrote an arrest report saying the man had become argumentative while denying he was speeding, refused to hand over identifying information, demanded to see a supervisor and stayed in his car when ordered to get out.
The driver - who faces charges of speeding, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct based on the officer's sworn affidavit - pressed record on his phone after he was pulled over. That recording, made public by the driver's attorney, tells a different story.
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