Edward Godawa v. David Byrd

How courts have described this case

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• finding that deadly force was unreasonable because a jury could determine that the officer initiated the impact with the driver’s car rather than the driver intentionally targeting the officer
• finding that deadly force was unreasonable because a jury could determine that the officer initiated the impact with the driver’s car rather than the driver intentionally targeting the officer
• reversing the district court for not viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the Plaintiff when considering which crimes the fleeing driver had committed
• reversing the district court for not viewing the evidence in the light most favorable to the Plaintiff when considering which crimes the fleeing driver had committed
• accepting Plaintiffs’ version of the facts where the video did “not clearly contradict Plaintiffs’ version of events”
• accepting the plaintiff's version of the facts because they were not “clearly contradict[ed]” by the video

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