Defendant alleging Taser violation pleads guilty (Star Tribune)

Defendant alleging Taser violation pleads guilty:

An 18-year-old man in a video that appears to show Minneapolis police using a Taser against him pleaded guilty Thursday to a gross misdemeanor for the incident that resulted in his arrest. Rolando Ruiz was charged with a felony count of first-degree damage to property in the April 30 incident outside the Second Precinct headquarters, on 19th Avenue NE. near Central Avenue. He pleaded guilty to a gross misdemeanor and was sentenced by Hennepin County Judge Robert Blaeser to 62 days -- which he already has served. He also was placed on two years probation and fined $50... In a video released this week by a lawyer for Ruiz, an officer appears to hold the Taser to the back of Ruiz's neck for 15 seconds. Chief Tim Dolan called the video "very disturbing" and has asked the FBI to review it. Ruiz claims he had surrendered before the officer used the Taser. In the video, his hands are on the hood of a car as an officer approaches him from behind. Ruiz screams and quickly falls out of the camera's view...