A San Diego Sheriff’s Sergeant who received a bizarre “trophy” for deploying his taser 25 times has resigned while under investigation for creating a hostile work environment for his colleagues, the San Diego Union reported yesterday. The newspaper quotes University of South Carolina law Professor Seth Stoughton, who points out that giving such a trophy for using force repeatedly “explicitly communicates that an officer’s use of force is something to be celebrated rather than avoided to the extent it is possible to do so.”
The taser “trophy” received by the sergeant. Photo by San Diego Union-Tribune.