14 News, WFIE, Evansville, Henderson, Owensboro
A police department in Indiana has launched an internal investigation after a firefighter said he was thrown to the ground and threatened with a Taser for waving at several officers, who thought he was flipping them off.
Evansville firefighter George Madison Jr. told the Evansville Courier and Press that he filed a formal complaint over the incident that happened on Tuesday. Madison, who also serves as a youth pastor at Memorial Baptist Church, said that he was riding his bicycle on South Weinbach Avenue when he waved at several officers in a patrol car.
The next thing he knew, the officers had pulled him over.
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