(Fort Worth, TX) — A Fort Worth Police sergeant who was fired for ordering another officer to taser a woman is back on the force.
Sergeant Kenneth Pierce was rehired yesterday. Pierce was fired in December of 2017, four months after he ordered a rookie officer to tase a woman who’d called police for a domestic violence attack. Chief Joel Fitzgerald fired Pierce for excessive use of force. He appealed his termination and following a hearing held Wednesday he was reinstated.
Pierce is a 22-year veteran of the Fort Worth Police Department.