Estate of Davis Ex Rel. McCully v. City of North Richland Hills

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• holding that the deliberate indifference standard requires showing “that the failure to train reflects a deliberate or conscious choice to endanger constitutional rights” (emphases added)
• holding that even though officer had vulgar behavior, crudity, lack of judgment, and “aggressive” nature, it was not so obvious he would shoot and kill an individual with excessive force
• stating that an official acts with deliberate indifference when he “disregard^] a known or obvious consequence of his action” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• noting that courts have applied single-incident exception when they find complete failure to train and supervise, not failure in one limited area alone
• stating that courts have applied single-incident exception when they find complete failure to train and supervise, not failure in one limited area
• noting that a municipality must have “nofice of a pattern of similar violations” (emphasis added)

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