{"id":47626,"date":"2021-03-11T08:16:55","date_gmt":"2021-03-11T13:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47626"},"modified":"2021-03-11T09:04:35","modified_gmt":"2021-03-11T14:04:35","slug":"ca5-accidentally-shooting-a-hostage-isnt-an-intentional-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47626","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Police accidentally shooting a hostage isn&#8217;t an intentional seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cHere, the only plausible reading of the allegations is that Doe accidentally shot Ulises while trying to help him by ending the hostage situation. Such accidental conduct does not result in a Fourth Amendment seizure. See Brower, 489 U.S. at 596; &#8230;. As a result, Plaintiffs have not alleged a violation of the Fourth Amendment. And even if arguendo Plaintiffs could allege a violation of the Fourth Amendment, cf. Milstead v. Kibler, 243 F.3d 157, 163-64 (4th Cir. 2001), &#8230;, they have not come close to doing so in a way that overcomes Agent Doe&#8217;s qualified immunity.\u201d Pearce v. Doe, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 6822 (5th Cir. Mar. 9, 2021).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Younger abstention applies to plaintiff\u2019s \u00a7 1983 claims about his arrest and statements to officers. Talmadge v. Zwink, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 43549 (D. Alaska Mar. 9, 2021).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cHere, the only plausible reading of the allegations is that Doe accidentally shot Ulises while trying to help him by ending the hostage situation. Such accidental conduct does not result in a Fourth Amendment seizure. See Brower, 489 U.S. at &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47626\">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":[52,126,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-issue-preclusion","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47626","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=47626"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47633,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47626\/revisions\/47633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}