Grudt v. City of Los Angeles

How courts have described this case

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• triable issue where plainclothes officers acted so as to make a driver think he was being robbed
• triable issue where plainclothes officers acted so as to make a driver think he was being robbed
• decedent killed by officer while trying to escape armed plainclothes officer
• “even if the jury 13 believed that [decedent] accelerated his automobile toward 14 [officer], they might have found negligence on the part of the 15 officers in interpreting the circumstances as necessitating a 16 shotgun blast and four rounds from a revolver, designed to 17 kill”

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