Mario Stewart, 46, of Brooklyn, was sentenced by US District Judge Kenneth M. Karas for tasing the restrained victim seven times in 2019, violating the man’s constitutional rights, the US Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on Thursday, July 10.
According to prosecutors, Stewart was working with the Mount Vernon Police Department’s Emergency Services Unit on March 26, 2019, when he and six other officers responded to assist a man in crisis.
The victim was handcuffed with his hands behind his back and his legs secured in a restraint bag. While the officers attempted to secure the restraint bag across the victim’s chest, Stewart ordered the man to release a strap he was holding. When he didn’t comply, Stewart deployed his taser seven times, despite the man being fully restrained on the ground, prosecutors said…