{"id":47428,"date":"2021-02-23T16:41:15","date_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:41:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47428"},"modified":"2021-02-23T16:41:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T21:41:15","slug":"ca5-tasering-a-man-threatening-suicide-who-doused-himself-in-gasoline-was-subject-to-qualified-immunity-when-the-taser-set-him-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47428","title":{"rendered":"CA5: Tasering a man threatening suicide who doused himself in gasoline was subject to qualified immunity when the Taser set him on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Plaintiff\u2019s decedent doused himself in gasoline and threatened to burn the house down with six people inside. He had a lighter in hand. The officers used their Tasers on him as a last resort, and that caused him to burst into flames and the house burned down, too. The officers were entitled to qualified immunity. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ca5.uscourts.gov\/opinions\/unpub\/20\/20-60783.0.pdf\">Ramirez v. Guadarrama<\/a>, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 3382 (5th Cir. Feb. 8, 2021).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The statute of limitations for a Fourth Amendment starts with when all the elements have occurred despite plaintiff having been incarcerated since then. Youker v. Hillhouse, 2021 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 31660 (E.D. Wash. Feb. 19, 2021).*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plaintiff\u2019s decedent doused himself in gasoline and threatened to burn the house down with six people inside. He had a lighter in hand. The officers used their Tasers on him as a last resort, and that caused him to burst &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=47428\">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":[45,52,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-45","category-excessive-force","category-qualified-immunity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47428","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=47428"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47429,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47428\/revisions\/47429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}