deadly force by police officers

• Vancouver Police Strive to Avoid Force

Its clear that things could have gone very differently. Less than three weeks after 25-year-old Aaron Campbell was shot and killed by Portland police, sparking intense debate over police use of deadly force, Vancouver Police Department officers found themselves in a very similar situation, with an altered ending.

• The Columbian
• February 26, 2010

• Use-of-Force Review Panel Could Be Valuable ; There Is Room in the System to Answer Publicly Questions That Now Remain Unasked.

Since 1990, the Maine Attorney General's Office has investigated 72 uses of deadly force by police officers. Every time, the investigators reached the same conclusion: The use of force was justified. While many view that record as something to be proud of, others look at the streak more skeptically.

• Portland Press Herald
• January 12, 2009

• Chino Police Officers Involved in Papa John's Shooting Death 'Legally Justified'

Six Chino police officers involved in a fatal shooting last year outside a Papa John's restaurant were legally justified in their actions, according to the San Bernardino County District Attorney's office. After reviewing the Feb. 1, 2009 shooting, which left 24-year- old Daniel Balandran dead, officials determined that the use of deadly force by Chino Police Cpls. Claudia Lisner and David Villaran, Sgt. Kevin Mensen and Officers Nicholas Mutrux, Charles Paul, Rodney Tamparong was "not unreasonable," according to a news release from the district attorney's office.

• The Sun (San Bernardino, CA)
• May 07, 2010

• Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1 (1985)

... statute provides that if, after a police officer has given notice of an intent to arrest a ...The officer used deadly force despite being "reasonably sure" the suspect ...m. on October 3, 1974, Memphis Police Officers Elton Hymon and Leslie Wright were dispatched to a...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Canton v. Harris, 489 U.S. 378 (1989)

... was incoherent following her arrest by officers of petitioner city's police department, the office... is liable for failure to train its police force, where the plaintiff proves that the municipality ... constitutional limitations on the use of deadly force, see Tennessee v. Garner, (1985), can be sa...

• U.S. Supreme Court

• Doris Berry, Personal Representative of the Estate of Lee F. Berry, Jr., Deceased, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. City of Detroit, Defendant-Appellant., 25 F.3d 1342 (6th Cir. 1994)

..., Lee Berry, Jr., who was shot by a Detroit police officer. On appeal, the City of Detroit (City) rai... a custom of unconstitutional use of deadly force. Second, the City argues that plaintiff's ev... failure to train and discipline its officers failed to show any custom or policy of the City th...

• Federal Circuits

• Suspect Shot by Police Still in Critical Condition ; the Attorney General's Office Will Determine If the Use of Deadly Force Was Justified.

A Bangor man remained in critical condition at Maine Medical Center on Monday, a day after being shot by a Portland police officer while using the car he was driving as a weapon against two officers, police said. Police Chief James Craig said at a news conference Monday that Jonathan Mitchell, 29, drove a black Volkswagen Jetta down a short dead-end street in an effort to escape police before dawn Sunday. Officers Robert Miller and David Schertz cornered Mitchell at the end of Fairfield Street, then approached him on foot.

• Portland Press Herald
• April 12, 2011

• Summerville v. Forest Park, (Ohio 2011)

CIVIL MISCELLANEOUS – CONSTITUTIONAL LAW/CIVIL: The trial court erred by denying summary judgment in favor of two police officers on a plaintiff’s excessive-force claim under Section 1983, Title 42, U.S.Code, where the plaintiff failed to carry her burden to demonstrate that the officers were not entitled to qualified immunity: the officers’ use of deadly force was objectively reasonable because they had probable cause to believe that the lunging, knife-wielding decedent had posed a threat of serious physical harm to them or to others. Because the plaintiff failed to establish that a city’s police officers had committed a constitutional violation in using deadly force against a knife-wielding attacker, the city could not be held liable under Section 1983, Title 42, U.S.Code for faili...

• Ohio Supreme Court

• Report: City Officers Justified in Fatal Shooting ; the Attorney General's Report Says David Okot Pointed a Gun at the Two Before They Fired.

Two Portland police officers who fatally shot a 26-year-old man on Weymouth Street in April were legally justified in using deadly force, according to a report by Attorney General Janet Mills. David Okot had pulled his gun from his waistband and pointed it at the officers before they shot him, according to the report Mills released Friday.

• Portland Press Herald
• October 19, 2009

• Clickback On Deadly Force

This week, ClickBack seeks editorial page reader comments on the use of deadly force by law enforcement agencies, the state of the Maine Turnpike Authority, the role of summer festivals in Maine and the Russian spy caper. To participate, visit bangordailynews.com and select ClickBack from the Opinion menu. Are police officers accountable for using deadly force?

• Bangor Daily News
• July 13, 2010