Can a Suspect Resist a Pat-Down, Run from Police, Fight on the Ground and Still Win an Excessive Force Lawsuit?
[E]ven taking all of Mr. Dannah’s descriptions of what happened in the shaky an [...]
Can Officers Fire a Total of Fourteen Rounds at a Suspect Holding a Firearm, to Include Eight Shots to His Back and Still be Objectively Reasonable?
[T]he key question for courts to ask isn’t how many times an officer may pull t [...]
When is a Taser Deployment Objectively Reasonable?
Physical struggles with the police qualify. But so can conduct that is perhaps [...]
Is there a Constitutional Requirement to De-Escalate Before Using Deadly Force to Pink Slip an Armed Male in a Mental Health Crisis?
The officers’ conduct did not violate the law because of the obvious danger tha [...]
If an Officer Intentionally Fires at a Suspect but Hits a Fellow Officer, is that Injured Officer “Seized” Under the Fourth Amendment?
[B]ecause Officer Gannon intentionally (not accidentally) fired his weapon in c [...]
Can a Police Officer Punch a Mentally Ill Patient in the Head During a Medical Restraint, have the Court Determine the Force is Excessive AND Still Receive Qualified Immunity?
Is Your Agency’s Use-of-Force Policy Ready for the Sixth Circuit’s Latest Guida [...]
Two Judges on the Sixth Circuit Determine that a Man Reaching for a Holstered Weapon was Not a Threat
By the time Officers Moore and Kurtz fired a second round of shots, a reasonabl [...]
Nine Officers Fired Thirty-Three Shots at an Armed Suspect Yet One of the Officers was Denied Qualified Immunity – Why?
After Mr. Eastep already had been shot multiple times, had fallen to the ground [...]
Sixth Circuit Denies Qualified Immunity to Nashville Police Who Shot and Killed a Mentally Ill Woman Brandishing a Bat and Pickaxe
[B]ased on the complaint’s allegations, Ms. Wooden’s actions do not “amount to [...]
Is It Lawful for Law Enforcement to Apply Force When a Delusional Person Resists Handcuffing for Mental Health Transport?
But Mr. Helms’s mental-health struggles did not bar the deputies from using the [...]