“……There’s no way that they had to Tase me that many times,” he said.

Mace spent his 17th birthday lying in a hospital bed.

“I had a broken back, broken foot.”

Nearly two weeks later, he’s out of the hospital but still lying in bed, hardly able to move.

“It should be a couple months before I’m able to walk on my own.”

His family says what made his situation worse is that his surgery had to be postponed because he had been stunned by Ozark police 19 times.

“At least I’m alive though.”

Mace says he still can’t remember how he ended up at the bottom of the bridge. He says he knows he didn’t willingly jump……” KY3News

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