Monday, March 24, 2014

No civil liability for deputies in deadly raid over video game - JSOnline

No civil liability for deputies in deadly raid over video game - JSOnline: "It may well have been overkill to conduct a SWAT-style home raid over a stolen video game, but once the resident pointed a gun at a deputy who had yelled "stop, poliice," he was justified in killing the resident, a federal judge has ruled."



No civil liability for "overkill"?



"Deputy Mathew Secor, who had long hair and goatee and was dressed in plain clothes, followed him. When Secor got to the top floor, he saw Brown pointing a shotgun at him. Secor fired his automatic assault rifle at Brown, who was struck by four rounds and died."



How is someone supposed to know that a "plain clothes" person is actually an officer?

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