Two South Carolina ex-cops were sentenced to prison yesterday by a federal judge for using a mentally disabled black woman as taser target practice, ABC News reported yesterday. They previously were fired from the Marion police force, a town of about 7,000 people in the northeast corner of the state that was named for Francis Marion, the “Swamp Fox” of Revolutionary War fame; a $2 million civil claim against the town and ex-cops is still pending.
Surprisingly, South Carolina has been more aggressive in cracking down on misbehaving cops than other states; several police abuse cases have been prosecuted there recently.
Photo: These 2 ex-cops lost their jobs and are going to prison for abusing a black woman with a taser gun. They tasered her 8 times even though she had done nothing wrong and didn’t resist arrest.
it is about time cops pay for breaking the law!