{"id":8231,"date":"2013-06-19T09:50:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T08:05:50","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T08:05:50","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=8231","title":{"rendered":"CA11: Plaintiff’s planned violent crime justified force to arrest him; no excessive force"},"content":{"rendered":"

Federal officers arresting defendant were alleged to have used excessive force. Plaintiff was arrested as he was planning a violent felony, and taking the proof most favorably to him, the force here was not unreasonable considering what the officers knew when he was arrested. Williams v. Bauer<\/a>, 503 Fed. Appx. 858 (11th Cir. 2013)*:<\/p>\n

Even viewing the facts alleged by Williams in the light most favorable to him, Defendants’ use of force was not excessive and did not violate the Fourth Amendment. Defendants arrested Williams on the day they believed he intended to commit a serious crime. They also had reason to believe that Williams would harm them and others. Williams had informed Zayas, who was working undercover, that he was going to rob a stash house and “the plan was to kill everyone present in the stash house.” Williams said that police in the area would not be able to “handle” him. Shortly before the arrest, Zayas saw that the man in the passenger seat of Williams’s car, Mercutio Stokes, had a rifle. Zayas informed the arresting agents that Stokes had a gun in the car. Stokes admitted that he had a rifle “between the seat.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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