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Taser Used On Lawyer At Tampa Code Board Meeting

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Published: November 26, 2008

Updated: 11/26/2008 09:26 pm

Carl Hayes

Carl Hayes

TAMPA - A lawyer was stunned with a Taser twice this afternoon after he became upset at a Tampa Code Enforcement Board meeting, police say.

Tampa lawyer Carl Roland Hayes, 53, was addressing the board when he became irate and verbally abusive, said Lt. Ronald McMullen of the Tampa Police Department. Officials asked Hayes to calm down, but he did not, McMullen said.

As Hayes was being escorted out of the meeting, he slapped an officer's face, McMullen said.

An officer used a Taser, but it had no obvious effect, police said. Hayes started "fighting and flailing," McMullen said, and an officer had to press the Taser against Hayes' body to "drive stun" him.

Hayes, of 5115 Branch Ave. N., was charged with battery of a law enforcement officer, obstructing or opposing an officer with violence and trespassing. He was released from Orient Road Jail at 8:43 p.m. after posting $4,500 bail.

McMullen said he did not know what issue Hayes had brought before the board or why he became upset.

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