{"id":38926,"date":"2019-08-04T09:42:12","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T14:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38926"},"modified":"2019-08-04T09:42:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T14:42:12","slug":"ca4-tasing-ptf-twice-was-reasonable-force-because-of-his-agitated-state-with-a-gun-on-his-person","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=38926","title":{"rendered":"CA4: Tasing ptf twice was reasonable force because of his agitated state with a gun on his person"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tasing plaintiff twice was reasonable force because of his agitated state with a gun on his person. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca4.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/191134.U.pdf\">Hogan v. Beaumont<\/a>, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 22861 (4th Cir. July 31, 2019):<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In this case, we conclude that the officers&#8217; decision to tase Hogan twice was not an unreasonable or excessive use of force. The undisputed record establishes that Hogan filed a false police report, was armed, and failed to relinquish his gun during a thirty-minute interaction with the police. Police reports also indicate that prior to being tased, Hogan was agitated, acting erratically, ignoring police instructions, and threatening the police. Under these circumstances, a reasonable officer would believe that Hogan posed an immediate threat to the officers&#8217; safety. See Meyers v. Baltimore County, 713 F.3d 723, 733 (4th Cir. 2015) (holding that a man in an agitated state, armed with a bat that he refused to relinquish, posed an immediate threat).<\/p>\n<p>Hogan turns a blind eye to these facts. &#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tasing plaintiff twice was reasonable force because of his agitated state with a gun on his person. Hogan v. Beaumont, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 22861 (4th Cir. July 31, 2019):<\/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-38926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38927,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38926\/revisions\/38927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}