A Colorado sheriff’s lieutenant with multiple criminal convictions slammed an unarmed man who’d been watching a traffic stop to the ground and fired a Taser at his face, body camera footage shows.
Kenneth Espinoza on Tuesday sued Lt. Henry Trujillo and other members of the Las Animas County Sheriff’s Office, alleging deputies acted excessively violent toward him even though he wasn’t suspected of a crime when they contacted him and he tried to comply with their orders.
