Ninth Circuit Skeptical Over Use of Force Claim in Deadly Shooting by Police
The family of a man killed by police argued that simply walking toward officers with a gun isn’t enough to constitute deadly force.
On appeal at the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco, plaintiff attorney Larry Wulkan asked the three-judge panel to reverse the lower court’s decision:
“The mere fact that a suspect has a weapon doesn't in and of itself justify the use of lethal force,” Wulkan told the panel. He said to justify a lethal response, a subject would have to make a “furtive motion, harrowing gesture, or serious verbal threat” to the deputies.
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