He had a seizure in his own yard. A police sergeant tased him seven times.

Dwight Jackson, a Black man, was putting up Halloween decorations outside his home in Chattahoochee, Florida, on Sunday, Oct. 25, when he had a seizure and collapsed. Emergency medical workers were treating him when a Chattahoochee police sergeant arrived and used a Taser on him seven times. The department fired the sergeant, identified only as Sgt. Price, this week.

Jackson’s brother, Caleb Johns, had called EMS. He told WCTV, the Tallahassee CBS affiliate, that Jackson was only starting to come around when the sergeant showed up, about 45 minutes after medical workers arrived. “They are all still rendering aid to him; they are already holding him down, they pretty much got it under control, this is just now when he’s starting to come back to,” Johns said. “And in that moment, that’s when Price started; he shoves everyone out the way and jumps on top of Dwight.”

Johns recorded part of it. Jackson has said he was not combative. “I’m defenseless,” he told WCTV.

Police Chief Michael Miller gave a different account at first. He said EMS had been struggling with a combative person and that Jackson pulled on the sergeant’s body armor. Jackson denies resisting; he says he was in the middle of a medical emergency.

What the department could establish was thin, by its own review. Price did not record the first contact or the use of force on his body-worn camera, Miller said, and a supervisory review found a second use of force while Jackson was being moved into the police department. A second video showed Price in a verbal altercation with an EMS worker. Miller announced on Wednesday, Oct. 28, that Price’s conduct and demeanor toward that worker did not meet the department’s standards, and that he was terminated.

Jackson was not booked. He had another seizure at the station and was evaluated at a hospital, then released. He told WCTV he was afraid of what the sergeant would have done if the Taser had not worked.

The firing leaves open the question the department has not answered: whether Price faces criminal charges, and whether any outside agency is investigating. The department has not said. A Black man in a medical crisis, in his own yard, with a medical team already at his side, was hit with a Taser seven times by the one person there who had not been called for help. Without the second video and the missing body-camera footage, the record of what happened would have rested on the sergeant’s account.

Jackson is reportedly considering legal action.