Reply #2: Santa Rosa deputy resigns after alleged taser misuse

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A Santa Rosa County sheriff's deputy has resigned under pressure after using a Taser gun on a suspect who had put up his hands to surrender after an August car chase, authorities say.

Sheriff Wendell Hall said he had decided to fire Jim Mundie before he resigned Friday. An internal investigation concluded Mundie used excessive force by employing the stun gun that fires a 50,000-volt electrical charge.

Mundie attempted to stop Anthony Eugene Moore, 27, for speeding just outside Milton, but the suspect led deputies on a chase through residential neighborhoods and a convenience store parking lot before pulling over in another parking lot. Mundie's cruiser, its brakes overheated, then bumped into the suspect's borrowed car.

Deputies were unaware during the chase that Moore was wanted in neighboring Escambia County on a charge of escaping from a jail work crew. Moore is scheduled for trial Wednesday on an escape charge.

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