Police Shooting of Mentally Unstable Person Upheld
Author: Fred Cohen.
Source: Volume 09, Number 06, March/April 2008 , pp.89-89(1)
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Abstract:
The use of deadly force here is found to be reasonable because a mentally unstable person was behind the wheel of an operative patrol car creating a special hazard if he was allowed to drive off.Keywords: Long v. Slaton , 508 F.3d 576, Tennessee v. Garner , 471 U.S. 1
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