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A Supreme Court case that further clarified the objective reasonableness standard for evaluating the use of force by law enforcement officers.
Federal courts assess federal officers’ use of lethal force under the Fourth Amendment’s objective “reasonableness” framework from Graham v. Connor, which instructs judges and juries to evaluate wheth...
The constitutional baseline for lethal force against a vehicle is the Fourth Amendment’s “objective reasonableness” test from Graham v. Connor, which permits deadly force only when an officer reasonab...
Legal experts have largely framed the shootings as a stress test of federal use-of-force doctrine: scholars and practitioners point to settled standards and policy as the baseline, while criticizing h...
When officers shoot a suspect after disarming or removing an obvious weapon, legal precedent and prosecutorial practice create a high bar for criminal charges or discipline: the ’s excessive-force fra...
policy defines as force that carries a substantial risk of causing death or serious bodily injury and expressly limits firing at moving vehicles to narrow circumstances where an officer reasonably bel...
intensive care nurse, was shot and killed by federal immigration agents in on January 24, 2026, in an encounter captured on bystander video and sparking immediate national outrage . Conflicting narrat...
Families alleging by federal agents can pursue criminal charges under federal statutes like 18 U.S.C. § 242, civil suits under doctrines derived from or analogous remedies, administrative complaints a...
Officers who fire at occupied vehicles face criminal liability judged by constitutional standards of “objective reasonableness” under the Fourth Amendment, overlapping agency use-of-force policies tha...
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) applies an internal "objectively reasonable" use‑of‑force standard and administrative review process shaped to align with Department of Justice guidance and t...
Deadly force—firing a gun—is legally permitted to U.S. law enforcement only when an officer has a reasonable belief that a person poses an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury to the offi...
The Supreme Court's recent decision in Barnes v. Felix reaffirmed that Fourth Amendment excessive-force claims must be judged by the "totality of the circumstances," rejecting a narrow "moment-of-thre...
The baseline federal rule for deadly force against moving vehicles is restrictive: federal guidance bars discharging firearms solely to disable a vehicle and permits deadly force only when an officer ...