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Brickbat: Stop Resisting

Charles Oliver | 6.23.2017 4:00 AM


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Martin Brayley

The Austin, Texas, police department has suspended officer Chris Limmer for 20 days for Tasering a suspect who was not resisting arrest. The man was lying on the ground being handcuffed by other officers when Limmer ran up and Tasered him in the back.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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