A judge declared a mistrial Wednesday after jurors failed to reach a verdict in the murder trial of a former Michigan State Police trooper who used a stun gun on a Detroit teenager who then crashed an all-terrain vehicle. Mark Bessner used a Taser on 15-year-old Damon Grimes from a moving patrol car in August 2017. Bessner, who is white, told jurors he feared the teenager had a gun, but he was wrong. The 44-year-old Bessner, who resigned from the force after Grimes' death, was charged with second-degree murder and involuntary manslaughter. He told jurors Grimes was committing a routine traffic offense by riding an ATV on a city street.

Source: Fox News October 31, 2018 19:06 UTC