Police Violence

A federal judge refused to dismiss a widow’s claim over the death of her husband, a nonviolent retired Navy medical officer, after a sheriff’s officer in Pinellas County, Florida, stunned him five times with a Taser.

TAMPA, Fla. — A federal judge refused to dismiss a widow’s claim over the death of her husband, a nonviolent retired Navy medical officer, after a sheriff’s officer in Pinellas County, Florida, stunned him five times with a Taser.