{"id":46673,"date":"2021-01-04T17:32:34","date_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:32:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46673"},"modified":"2021-01-04T17:32:34","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T22:32:34","slug":"n-d-ill-rs-not-required-to-approach-a-person-to-talk-to-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46673","title":{"rendered":"N.D.Ill.: RS not required to approach a person to talk to him"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWilliams first argues that the police officers violated the Fourth Amendment by approaching him without reasonable suspicion. R. 33 at 17. But reasonable suspicion is only required when a suspect has been <em>seized<\/em>. United States v. Douglass, 467 F.3d 621, 623 (7th Cir. 2006).\u201d \u201cNor, for the matter, was reasonable suspicion required for the officers to give chase once Williams started running. \u2018[A] fleeing suspect&#8211;even one who is confronted with an obvious show of authority&#8211;is not seized until his freedom of movement is terminated by intentional application of physical force or by the suspect&#8217;s submission to the asserted authority.\u2019 Mays, 819 F.3d at 956. Rather, a \u2018seizure effected by a show of authority occurs when the suspect submits.\u2019 \u2026 So, like the initial approach toward Williams, no amount of suspicion was needed to chase Williams&#8211;he was not \u2018seized\u2019 under the Fourth Amendment.\u201d \u201cIndeed it was not until Williams leapt the security fence for a second time and obeyed Officer Callahan&#8217;s command to \u2018get on the ground\u2019 that a seizure was effectuated.\u201d United States v. Williams, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 14 (N.D. Ill. Jan. 1, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWilliams first argues that the police officers violated the Fourth Amendment by approaching him without reasonable suspicion. R. 33 at 17. But reasonable suspicion is only required when a suspect has been seized. United States v. Douglass, 467 F.3d 621, &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=46673\">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":[35,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46673","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=46673"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46674,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46673\/revisions\/46674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}