{"id":53027,"date":"2022-08-21T19:26:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T00:26:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53027"},"modified":"2022-08-21T19:27:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T00:27:51","slug":"ca7-shooting-a-man-using-a-running-chainsaw-as-an-apparent-weapon-was-subject-to-qi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53027","title":{"rendered":"CA7: Shooting a man using a running chainsaw as an apparent weapon was subject to QI"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Shooting a man advancing on an officer with a running chainsaw who was ignoring police commands to stop was subject to qualified immunity. <a href=\"http:\/\/media.ca7.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/rssExec.pl?Submit=Display&amp;Path=Y2022\/D08-18\/C:21-2574:J:PerCuriam:aut:T:npDp:N:2920050:S:0\">Esker v. Lutz<\/a>, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 23033 (7th Cir. Aug. 18, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The defendant officers\u2019 contention that their use of force was in a \u201cgray area\u201d only served to underscore that this was a fact question for trial. Qualified immunity properly denied. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/22a0194p-06.pdf\">Meadows v. City of Walker<\/a>, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 23022 (6th Cir. Aug. 18, 2022).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The record shows a lack of reasonable suspicion for defendant\u2019s continued detention for the dog sniff. Suppressed. <a href=\"https:\/\/search.txcourts.gov\/SearchMedia.aspx?MediaVersionID=cf252a3f-1a7e-4108-8035-0448da8bd32d&amp;MediaID=2046777e-c5c5-4a28-a5f7-2e95cbf593fd&amp;coa=%22%20+%20this.CurrentWebState.CurrentCourt%20+%20@%22&amp;DT=Opinion\">State v. Dominguez<\/a>, 2022 Tex. App. LEXIS 6065 (Tex. App. \u2013 El Paso Aug. 18, 2022).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shooting a man advancing on an officer with a running chainsaw who was ignoring police commands to stop was subject to qualified immunity. Esker v. Lutz, 2022 U.S. App. LEXIS 23033 (7th Cir. Aug. 18, 2022).* The defendant officers\u2019 contention &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=53027\">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":[27,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dog-sniff","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53027","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=53027"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53029,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53027\/revisions\/53029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}