{"id":39304,"date":"2019-08-24T04:33:10","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T09:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39304"},"modified":"2019-08-24T10:44:21","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T15:44:21","slug":"ca6-pointing-gun-at-teenagers-in-a-car-wreck-for-no-apparent-reason-violated-clearly-established-4a-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39304","title":{"rendered":"CA6: Pointing gun at teenagers in a car wreck for no apparent reason violated clearly established 4A law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing a gun for two minutes at nonthreatening teenagers in a car wreck violated clearly established Fourth Amendment law. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/19a0204p-06.pdf\">Vanderhoef v. Dixon<\/a>, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 24897 (6th Cir. Aug. 21, 2019).<\/p>\n<p>Plaintiff is a frail 76-year-old man who came to a fire at his store to make sure the police and fire department had the keys. He ended up on the ground handcuffed and then kneed to the back and was injured. He shows enough of a fact dispute to get around qualified immunity. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/19a0439n-06.pdf\">Judd v. City of Baxter<\/a>, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 24892 (6th Cir. Aug. 21, 2019). <\/p>\n<p>Also: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opn.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/19a0207p-06.pdf\">Butler v. City of Detroit<\/a>, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 25062 (6th Cir. Aug. 22, 2019) (no QI for excessive force against compliant person).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pointing a gun for two minutes at nonthreatening teenagers in a car wreck violated clearly established Fourth Amendment law. Vanderhoef v. Dixon, 2019 U.S. App. LEXIS 24897 (6th Cir. Aug. 21, 2019). Plaintiff is a frail 76-year-old man who came &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=39304\">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":[52,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39304","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=39304"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39332,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39304\/revisions\/39332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}