But Dunn, who was an officer in Enoch’s police department, also thought the woman was a threat. She had a screwdriver and wasn’t responding to commands to put it down. The prongs of his Taser couldn’t penetrate the woman’s coat.
“I saw her as an imminent threat,” Dunn told the Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training Council on Wednesday, “and I made the best decision I could to minimize the damage to her. The life, the preservation of life, was my priority.”
An administrative law judge called the shooting an assault. The POST Council on Wednesday suspended Dunn’s police certification for four years.