{"id":22077,"date":"2016-05-12T07:12:40","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T12:12:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22077"},"modified":"2016-05-12T07:12:40","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T12:12:40","slug":"ca6-officers-unprovoked-attack-on-ptf-for-shutting-his-door-on-uninvited-officer-was-excessive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22077","title":{"rendered":"CA6: Officer&#8217;s unprovoked attack on ptf for shutting his door on uninvited officer was excessive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The officer\u2019s unprovoked attack on the plaintiff for shutting his door on police officers not invited in was excessive force under the Fourth Amendment. \u201cThere was no need for any force in this situation because no crime was being committed and there was no immediate threat to the safety of anyone; yet, when Harris decided to close the door to his own home, Officer Pendleton suddenly attacked him without warning. This unprovoked violence cannot be excused as the consequence of a \u2018split-second judgment.\u2019 The facts, as alleged, portray a patently unreasonable use of force.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/16a0244n-06.pdf\">Harris v. Langley<\/a>, 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 8476 (6th Cir. May 6, 2016).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The officer\u2019s unprovoked attack on the plaintiff for shutting his door on police officers not invited in was excessive force under the Fourth Amendment. \u201cThere was no need for any force in this situation because no crime was being committed &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=22077\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22078,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22077\/revisions\/22078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}