{"id":36675,"date":"2019-03-06T07:46:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T12:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36675"},"modified":"2019-03-06T12:30:56","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T17:30:56","slug":"s-d-n-y-use-of-military-weaponry-flash-bang-in-a-residential-neighborhood-is-leo-discretion-under-ftca","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36675","title":{"rendered":"S.D.N.Y.: Use of military weaponry (flash bang) in a residential neighborhood is LEO discretion under FTCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The choice of law enforcement officers to use flash bang devices in a residential neighborhood at 4 a.m. is discretionary with the police and not unreasonable as a matter of law: \u201cweighing of such risks against the necessity of using such weaponry is a choice that is firmly within the province of governmental decision-makers. It is the precise type of choice that is protected by the discretionary function exception (the &#8220;DFE&#8221;) to the Federal Tort Claims Act.\u201d Oliveras v. United States, 2019 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 33806 (S.D. N.Y. Mar. 4, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Defendant\u2019s individual actions may not show probable cause, but his collective actions showed probable cause he was stalking a child. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.la-fcca.org\/opiniongrid\/opinionpdf\/2018%20KA%200718%20Decision%20Appeal.pdf\">State v. Conklin<\/a>, 2019 La. App. LEXIS 377 (La. App. 1 Cir. Feb. 28, 2019).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The choice of law enforcement officers to use flash bang devices in a residential neighborhood at 4 a.m. is discretionary with the police and not unreasonable as a matter of law: \u201cweighing of such risks against the necessity of using &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=36675\">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":[63,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonableness","category-warrant-execution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36675","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=36675"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36680,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36675\/revisions\/36680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}