A jury sided with a Concord police officer over a man whom he used a stun gun on and tackled during a June 2019 traffic stop.
CONCORD — After a nine-day trial, a Contra Costa jury found that a Concord police officer was justified in tackling and tasing a then-64-year-old man in a 2019 traffic stop that resulted in a resisting and drunk driving arrest, but no criminal charges.
During the trial, jurors saw a roughly five-minute clip video from Parsley’s body camera, which shows the incident from when the two men encountered one another till Smith is in handcuffs, asking what he did wrong. The city argued that Parsley’s use of force was justified because Smith failed to obey the officer’s commands, including by grasping his keys when Parsley told him to put both his hands behind his back.
Neither attorneys for the city of Concord, nor the city’s police department, responded to repeated requests for comment on the suit’s outcome.
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