Ex-Highland Park police officer avoids jail time over second assault case

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…

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