Man shocked with Taser files federal lawsuit against Colorado police
According to attorneys, Kenneth Espinoza was shocked 35 times in the face and body, but the sheriff's department disagrees, saying that he was only shocked once. A Colorado man involved in an altercation with two Las Animas County sheriff's deputies filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday morning stating that he was “violently and without justification assaulted” at a traffic stop last November. According to the man’s attorney and the civil complaint, Kenneth Espinoza was shocked 35 times with a Taser with stuns to the body and even some to the face, but the sheriff's office disagrees, saying that he was only shocked once. “The statement that there was one Taser deployed is just preposterous,” Espinoza’s attorney Kevin Mehr said during Tuesday’s press conference. According to the sheriff's office, data obtained from Lt. Henry Trujillo’s and Deputy Mikhail Noel’s Tasers show that Espinoza was only shocked once. But Mehr claimed that there is a mode on Tasers called drive-stu...