A disgraced former police officer—fresh off serving a 45-day jail sentence over a separate assault case—avoided further jail time today when a Wayne County judge sentenced him to probation.
Watch Ross Jones’s video report:
Ex-Highland Park police officer avoids jail time over second assault case
Dammeon Player appeared before Wayne County Judge Anne Marie McCarthy today and—through his attorney—expressed remorse for a 2020 incident where Player fired his Taser and later took down a man who was walking away, briefly knocking him unconscious.
“He’s learned a lot from these ordeals your honor,” said Player’s attorney Vassal Johnson…