Does the Times even mention Wooten's threat, the tasering of his kid, the drinking in his car or the fact that Wooten is still a COP?!!
Or his driving a trooper car after drinking. He got into a fight with a guy at a bar. The owner told him to knock it off. He said something like “Do you know who I am” pulling out his badge. Owner called the troopers when he left. The trooper that pulled Wooten over didn’t see the need to give him a breathalizer. He did see fit to drive him home though just because I guess...
Speaking Thursday to CNN's Drew Griffin and Kathleen Johnston, Wooten gave his account of the Taser incident but denied ever drinking while driving.
He said that he was a new Taser instructor, and his stepson was asking him about the equipment. "I didn't shoot him with live, you know, actual live cartridge," Wooten said.
Instead, he said, he hooked his stepson up to a training aid "with little clips. And, you know, the Taser was activated for less than a second, which would be less than what you would get if you touched an electric fence. ... It was as safe as I could possibly make it."
He said his stepson was on the living room floor surrounded by pillows, that he "was bragging about it," and that the family laughed about it.
Asked whether it was a dumb decision, Wooten told CNN, "absolutely."