The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit on Friday reinstated a jury verdict against a New York City Police Department lieutenant who used a taser on a man twice during a 2015 arrest, rejecting the officer’s claim to qualified immunity in the civil lawsuit.

The decision, from a three-judge panel of the Manhattan-based appeals court, hinged on Lt.  Christopher Treubig’s use, for the second time, of his taser to subdue Matthew Jones during an arrest at his apartment building in East Harlem.

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