A police officer charged with assaulting retired footballer Dalian Atkinson shortly before he died told a jury she was "very, very frightened" when she struck him with a baton.
PC Mary Ellen Bettley-Smith said she hit the 48-year-old "to try to restrain him" in Shropshire in August 2016.
Prosecutors allege she angrily hit him when "no longer a threat" after being tasered by PC Benjamin Monk.
But PC Bettley-Smith denied acting unlawfully at Birmingham Crown Court.
England B international Mr Atkinson, who retired in 2001 after playing for clubs including Aston Villa and Sheffield Wednesday, died in hospital about an hour after being tasered in Telford.