{"id":38633,"date":"2019-07-19T08:58:07","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38633"},"modified":"2019-07-19T08:58:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T13:58:07","slug":"forbes-cop-who-accidentally-shot-10-year-old-when-aiming-for-family-dog-cant-be-sued-federal-court-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38633","title":{"rendered":"Forbes: Cop Who Accidentally Shot 10-Year-Old When Aiming For Family Dog Can\u2019t Be Sued, Federal Court Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/nicksibilla\/2019\/07\/18\/cop-who-accidentally-shot-10-year-old-when-aiming-for-family-dog-cant-be-sued-federal-court-rules\/#7f548fa63987\">Cop Who Accidentally Shot 10-Year-Old When Aiming For Family Dog Can\u2019t Be Sued, Federal Court Rules<\/a> by Nick Sibilla:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A federal appeals court dismissed a civil-rights lawsuit filed against a Georgia deputy who tried to shoot a family\u2019s dog, but instead hit a 10-year-old boy lying down on the ground. Instead of having to face a $2 million lawsuit for excessive force, Coffee County Deputy Sheriff Michael Vickers was entitled to \u201cqualified immunity\u201d for his actions and cannot be sued in federal court, the Eleventh U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forbes: Cop Who Accidentally Shot 10-Year-Old When Aiming For Family Dog Can\u2019t Be Sued, Federal Court Rules by Nick Sibilla:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38633","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=38633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38634,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38633\/revisions\/38634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}