Just 16 seconds after Officer William May told Kasey Martin he was under arrest, Martin was on the ground with a Taser in his back. Police said he was “squaring up to fight.”

Martin was initially charged with six felonies. Within days, prosecutors dropped every single one.

Newly released body-camera footage shows the Feb. 19 encounter outside Martin’s Glennwilde home. Two days earlier, his estranged wife accused him of entering her home without permission, grabbing her and taking her car keys.

In the newly released body camera footage, Martin explains his side of the story, that he was retrieving a vehicle in his name, amidst a messy separation. It was going into the house that got Maricopa police to respond.

“Do you understand that you still committed a few different crimes?” asks O

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