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I'm not 100% sure - I'd actually have to go over the main case law again. At a high level, it appears once deadly force is justified it can continue until the suspect is "Seized", incapacitated or no longer a threat.No. The same exact situation as Renee's killing. Buy with you accepting, just for the sake of the discussion, that Ross had time time to reassess the situation after the first shot. What I am asking is, once he had ruled out danger to himself, do you believe he would still have had grounds for killing Renee to prevent danger to others. If so, why.
Justifiable use of deadly force under US case law stops when the objectively reasonable belief of an imminent threat of death or serious bodily harm to the officer or others ends, as established in
Tennessee v. Garner (1985) and Graham v. Connor (1989). Force must stop once the suspect is incapacitated or no longer poses a danger.
So in the circumstances - lets assume he fired a few seconds later - no he has no justification. or lets assume he fired once she had stopped - again no justification.
Not when they open firePlumhoff vs Rickard was such a different case that comparisons are meaningles. In that case there had already been a ten minute, 100 mph car chase where 29 cars had been damaged. So, the cops knew for sure that he was a danger to other cars and pedestrians.
At the time they open fired, he had crashed with another vehicle and was attempting to reverse to get away. 3 shots were fired, followed by another 12 moments later.
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