When Does a Use of Force Analysis Begin?
As we have explained, a court cannot thus “narrow” the totality-of-the-circumst [...]
Should an Officer Call for a Timeout During a Deadly Force Encounter to Issue a Verbal Warning?
[A]n officer who has already been fired on (unsuccessfully) need not pause to g [...]
When Should a Use of Force Analysis Begin? Seconds before … or the Entire Encounter?
Officer Felix was still hanging on to the moving vehicle when he shot Barnes. U [...]
When Does an Officer Have a Legal Duty to Intervene and Stop Another Officer from Using Excessive Force?
(1) The officer observed or had reason to know that excessive force would be or [...]
Must Law Enforcement Use a Taser on a Mentally Ill, Armed, Threatening Suspect because it is a ‘best technique’ or is Deadly Force Objectively Reasonable?
But “[T]he Fourth Amendment does not require officers to use the best technique [...]
Were the Restraint Techniques used Reasonable? Even if the Coroner concluded Mr. Thomas’ Cause of Death was a Cocaine Induced Delirium?
Because Plaintiff Wiley cannot show that Mr. Thomas had a clearly established r [...]
Should a Recidivist’s Violent History be Considered in the Application and Evaluation of Force?
[I]t was reasonable for Tpr. Sonstrom to ensure Mr. Cunningham was quickly hand [...]
Is it Objectively Reasonable to Shoot a Robber Armed with a Knife who is Holding it at his Side Thirty Feet Away?
Mr. Groom’s actions in the moments before the shooting did not justify lethal f [...]
The Sixth Circuit Dangerously Limits the way Officers Can Protect Themselves During Dangerous Encounters with a Convoluted Seven-Part Use of Force Test
(1) Why the officer was called to the scene. (2) Whether the officer knew or re [...]
Did Anotonino’s Reckless Driving Create an Imminent Risk of Harm to the Surrounding Public in the White Castle Lot to Justify Deadly Force?
We must never allow the theoretical, sanitized world of our imagination to repl [...]