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Civilian review board reviews 2021 use-of-force video, flags mental-health policy gaps
Summary
At an Urbana Civilian Police Review Board meeting, Lt. Cortez Garner presented a 2021 body-worn-camera video of a retail-theft arrest in which a taser deployment failed and three officers were injured; board members urged clearer mental-health response guidance and training updates.
The Urbana Civilian Police Review Board reviewed body-worn video from a 2021 arrest in which officers tackled a man alleged to have taken two televisions from a store, Lieutenant Cortez Garner told the board. Garner, the patrol lieutenant for the night shift, summarized the call and said officers struggled to gain compliance when a taser deployment did not complete an electrical circuit.
"You could tell he's still resisting and not being completely compliant," Garner said while pointing to body-camera footage; he later described the scene as "a very dangerous situation" when the arrestee wrapped his arms around a sergeant's head and one officer delivered a single strike to break the…
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