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"Kline, Greene County: Former deputy escapes indictment after tasing a handcuffed man in a wheelchair

 A former law enforcement officer is facing the public eye after a wild hospital encounter went viral. Robert Kline was a deputy with the local sheriff's office when his career fell apart in July 2025. It all started after a routine traffic stop and a wreck on Interstate 20 led to a hospital visit. What happened next inside the medical facility changed everything for the deputy and the man he arrested.

Newly released body camera footage captures the exact moment Kline chose to deploy his weapon. The suspect, Cornelius Allen, was already in custody for a suspected driving under the influence charge. Allen was sitting down in a wheelchair with handcuffs secured behind his back. Despite the restraints, Kline drew his Taser and fired it directly into the sitting suspect.


The fallout from the high-stakes choice was immediate and severe for the veteran officer. The sheriff's office opened an internal probe and fired Kline just days after the incident. He was then arrested on serious charges related to his aggressive use of force inside the hospital. The state bureau of investigation took over the files to see exactly what went wrong.


Months passed while Kline waited to see how the legal system would handle his fate. On March 25, 2026, the Ocmulgee Judicial Circuit District Attorney's Office finally brought the case forward. They presented all the gathered evidence and video footage to a grand jury. To the surprise of many onlookers, the grand jury declined to indict the former deputy.


With no indictment on the books, Kline felt emboldened to break his silence on the matter. He reached out to a local newsroom earlier this month to clear his name in public. In his initial emails, Kline claimed he was officially found not guilty of the crimes. He expressed a strong desire to talk about the bad training policies he experienced on the job.


A sit-down media interview was locked in for Wednesday, June 17, 2026, to discuss the case details. Journalists were ready to ask hard questions about the disturbing body camera footage. However, the former deputy got cold feet just twenty-four hours before the meeting was supposed to happen. Kline sent a message explaining that his legal counsel explicitly told him not to talk.


The abrupt cancellation leaves a lot of unanswered questions hanging over the entire community. The public now watches closely to see if the district attorney will push the matter any further. Prosecutors still hold the power to bring the case before a completely different grand jury. For now, the former deputy remains free of charges while the controversial video spreads online.

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