Monroe, Louisiana, police officer Timothy Miller has been charged with aggravated battery and malfeasance in office for using his Taser on a suspect inside his patrol car. According to a statement by the city, Miller had trouble getting the man into his patrol car, and after the man was in the car, he began using racial slurs against Miller, who is black. The statement doesn’t reveal the man’s name or what he was being detained for.
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