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Former Mayoral Candidate Tazed at Walmart

After climbing a display case at Walmart, on Lamy Lane in Monroe, Tremane Gordon, Former Monroe Mayoral candidate, began rapping and dancing. On lookers were disturbed and called the police.

 

Officers tried to verbally subdue Gordon by asking him to get on the ground and surrender several times. Gordon Responded to this by pouring a beer he was drinking on the ground.

Police deployed a tazer at him then arrested him.

 

Lieutenant Glenn Kramel, of the Monroe police Department, said the officers followed the correct protocol and handled the incident well.