A Met Police officer who Tasered a man who ended up paralysed from the waist down has been found not guilty of GBH.
Pc Mahmood was at Southwark Crown Court accused of unlawfully inflicting grievous bodily harm on Jordan Walker-Brown.
People in public gallery cried as the verdict was heard, while others walked out shaking their heads.
Jurors had been deliberating for over nine and a half hours when the verdict was reached this afternoon.
The court had previously heard Jordan Walker-Brown has 'permanent and complete paraplegia' and uses a wheelchair after he fell on to his head from a wall in Finsbury Park, north London, on May 4, 2020.
Pc Mahmood, 36, was in a marked police van with eight colleagues when he saw 26-year-old Mr Walker-Brown walking along the pavement.
Body-worn footage seen by the jury, the officer chases after Mr Walker-Brown as he clambers onto wheelie bins and tried to climb over.
Mahmood then fires the Taser and Mr Walker-Brown can be seen falling over the other side of the wall.
In his closing speech prosecutor Ben Fitzgerald said: "The video evidence shows what happened.
"The truth of what happened is clear and simple. It shows that Mr Walker-Brown presented no risk to this officer when the Taser was fired, he just ran.
"'He had no weapon in his hand, no weapon on display, no weapon ever produced.
"He never made any move towards PC Mahmood. He was always moving away from the police.
"He jumped onto the bins. He was always moving to get away. He never made a move to attack.
"As he was about to breach the wall he was Tasered. He was not in a position to attack anyway.
"The issue, in this case, is not what was in his mind at the time and whether his use of force was reasonable or not.
"The fact is he is guilty."
Giving evidence last week Mahmood said he genuinely believed Mr Walker-Brown had a weapon and that he needed to contain him as 'he could turn around and attack [him] at any point'.
He had chased Walker-Brown down the pavement before Walker-Brown jumped onto a set of bins in the front corner of a property.
"At this point I'm shouting at Mr Walker-Brown 'police officers armed with Tasers', stuff like this," Mahmood told the court.
"I [wanted] to make Mr Walker-Brown aware there are police officers chasing after him and that I have a Taser pointing out at him.
"I intended him to give up and turn around."
Mahmood said it was the first time he discharged his Taser in his career but he genuinely believed Mr Walker-Brown posed an 'immediate threat'.
Mahmood wept as he told the court he 'absolutely did not' intend to cause harm to Mr Walker-Brown and said the past three years 'had been really hard'.
"It's affected me massively, not only myself but my family, I was just trying to do my job," Mahmood said.
Mahmood, who was part of the Territorial Support Group patrolling the Haringey area, denied inflicting grievous bodily harm.
