Allen v. Muskogee

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• concluding that expert testimony on adequacy of police training was sufficient to support a jury’s verdict on municipal liability
• concluding that an officer’s use of deadly force against a suspect, who was pointing a gun at the officer, may have been excessive if the officer had recklessly or intentionally created the danger
• holding an excessive-force claim might be sustained if the claimant could prove police ran-weapons drawn and screaming-up to an armed, suicidal suspect
• holding a rational jury could conclude officers’ reckless conduct created lethal situation and that would constitute a violation of a decedent’s Fourth Amendment rights
• describing the officers’ approach and characterizing Mr. Allen as an “armed mentally ill or emotionally upset person[]”
• defining a “genuine” dispute as one which might lead a reasonable jury to return a verdict for the nonmoving party

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