A Tampa police officer who made a habit of taunting and roughing up suspects was fired this week following an internal investigation into a February traffic stop when he tased a Black man without giving him time to comply, then told him as he lay on the sidewalk, “You’re lucky I didn’t beat you up.”
Officer Dukagjin Maxhuni’s most recent bad conduct was discovered during a routine quality assurance audit of body camera video by the Tampa Bay Police Department.
The police department said that on February 25 Maxhuni and another officer tried to stop a Toyota Tundra pickup truck for a traffic violation, but the driver fled. The officers quickly located the vehicle, and the driver got out and began walking down a sidewalk. He put his hands up when he saw Maxhuni exit an unmarked police vehicle.
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