A former Highland Park, Michigan, police officer has been sentenced for the 2020 assault of a 36-year-old man near a Burger King.
According to online court records, Dammeon Lamark Player was sentenced on Wednesday to two years of probation and 40 hours of community service.
Player was dispatched to the Burger King on Woodward Avenue in Highland Park on May 14, 2020, for reports of a person, later identified as the man, being disorderly. The Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office said Player allegedly started arguing with the man and deployed his Taser from his vehicle towards him, though it didn’t have any effect…