Fired Seattle Police Officer Gets Job Back

The city's Public Safety Civil Service Commission has ruled that the department's firing of former Officer Eric Werner for dishonesty was too harsh.

Instead of walking papers, the Seattle Times says Werner will get:

a 30-day suspension, which will mean a deduction from his back pay.

Werner maintained he forgot about punching an agitated man when he was initially questioned in 2007 by Seattle police during an investigation into the man's complaint that he was repeatedly tazed.

Werner, during testimony last year before the commission, said he later remembered striking the man and decided to come clean while applying for a job with the Snohomish County Sheriff's Office in May 2008. The hiring process included polygraph examinations.