Alexander v. City And County Of San Francisco

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the police used excessive force, considering all the circumstances, in “storm[ing] the house of a man whom they knew to be a mentally ill ... recluse who had threatened to shoot anybody who entered”
• holding that the police used excessive force, considering all the circumstances, in “stormfing] the house of a man whom they knew to be a mentally ill ... recluse who had threatened to shoot anybody who entered”
• holding that the police used excessive force, considering all the circumstances, in \storm[ing] the house of a man whom they knew to be a mentally ill .. . recluse who had threatened to shoot anybody who entered\
• holding that the police used excessive force, considering all the circumstances, in “storm[ing] the house of a man they knew to be a mentally ill ... recluse who had threatened to shoot anybody who entered”
• holding that the police 15 used excessive force, considering all the circumstances, in “storm[ing] the house of a man whom 16 they knew to be a mentally ill. . . recluse who had threatened to shoot anybody who entered”
• holding offi- cers provoked a confrontation where they entered a man’s house without a warrant and this violation provoked the man to shoot at the officers

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).