The same district attorney argued 2 weeks ago in a different case that a taser is a deadly weapon.
I think the cop was overcharged. But with a guy who just overpowered 2 officers trying to put him in handcuffs for DUI, stole one of the cop’s lethal weapons and shot it at the officer while trying to allude arrest, I would not have wanted to be in the officer’s situation having to decide in a split second how to respond.