He copped an attitude and paid the price.
Via Daily Mail:
The police officer who tasered a race relations adviser in the face after mistaking him for a wanted suspect was today cleared of all misconduct charges.
Acting sergeant Claire Boddie used ‘unnecessary, unreasonable or disproportionate’ force when she used the Taser on Judah Adunbi, her misconduct hearing was told yesterday.
But Pc Boddie was cleared of misconduct after Tasering the adviser when he refused to identify himself, Bristol Live reports.
She was on uniformed duty with colleague Pc Darren Weston in the Easton area of Bristol at about 9.10am on January 14 last year.
he pair were driving to another incident when they saw Judah Adunbi, 65, walking on the side of the road with his dog.
A misconduct hearing at Avon and Somerset Police headquarters in Portishead heard they believed Mr Adunbi was wanted man Royston McCalla and stopped to speak to him.
‘This case starts off with an incident of mistaken identity,’ George Thomas, presenting the case against Pc Boddie, said.
‘It escalated from that to the point at which Pc Boddie used a Taser on Mr Adunbi. One of the barbs of the Taser struck Mr Adunbi in the face, causing a minor injury to his chin.’
Pc Boddie insists she was acting in accordance with her training and the force she used on Mr Adunbi was lawful, claiming that he posed a threat as he had keys in his hand and was ‘using violence to escape’.
She was cleared of assaulting Mr Adunbi following a trial in Salisbury in May.
Mr Thomas said Pc Boddie used the X26 Taser on Mr Adunbi when he was moving away from her and had his hands down.
The officer had previously drawn her Taser and warned Mr Adunbi that she had done so, but did not do this immediately before she discharged the weapon.
‘Having drawn the Taser, she fired it from a reasonably close range in such a way that one of the barbs struck Mr Adunbi in the face,’ he said.
‘It is not alleged that Pc Boddie deliberately aimed that Taser to Mr Adunbi’s face.’
Footage taken from bodycams worn by Pc Boddie and Pc Weston, as well as a mobile phone recording, was played to the hearing.
It showed the officers repeatedly asking Mr Adunbi to identify himself, with the community elder replying: ‘I’m not telling you my name. I have done nothing wrong.’
He is heard shouting: ‘Why you coming to torment me? Go f*** off about your business and don’t follow me. Stop, stop, if you put your hand on me I’m gonna f*** you up.