A disgraced former police officerfresh off serving a 45-day jail sentence over a separate assault caseavoided further jail time today when a Wayne County judge sentenced him to probation.

Dammeon Player appeared before Wayne County Judge Anne Marie McCarthy today andthrough his attorneyexpressed remorse for a 2020 incident where Player fired his Taser and later took down a man who was walking away, briefly knocking him unconscious.

Hes learned a lot from these ordeals your honor, said Players attorney Vassal Johnson.

Player declined to address the court.

As 7 News first reported last year, Player had been called to a Burger King along Woodward Avenue to respond to a man who refused to leave the restaurant. Player would later Tase the man while he was observed walking away, and the man

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