(This story was updated to include additional information.)
The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office paid $5.5 million in July 2024 to settle an “excessive force” lawsuit filed by a West Palm Beach-area man who sustained crippling injuries after allegedly being tasered while on top of a roof.
The plaintiff, Timmie Lee Knox Jr., 17 at the time of the 2021 incident, severed his spinal cord after he lost his balance and fell to the ground…