Lawsuit Filed Against Police For Tasing Incident

Last updated on Thursday, July 23, 2009

(SOUTH BEND) - A lawsuit has been filed by a man who was tasered by South Bend police.

29-year-old Tavares Browning alleges at least eight officers came to his home in 2007 to arrest him on a warrant for unpaid child support.

It resulted in a standoff in which the officers ultimately fired multiple tasers through an open window at browning.

Browning claims he was unarmed and not resisting arrest.

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