Mildred Robinson v. Daniel Arrugueta

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• holding that it is “constitutionally reasonable for an officer to use deadly force when he has probable cause to believe that his own life is in peril”
• holding that an Officer’s decision to shoot within a reaction time of 2.72 seconds was reasonable, even if hindsight showed that the officer could have escaped unharmed
• holding that an officer reasonably used deadly force when a suspect started driving toward him at one to two miles per hour, threatening to crush him against another car in a matter of seconds
• concluding that deadly force was justified where the officer “had to make a split-second decision of 15 USCA11 Case: 19-15098 Date Filed: 09/07/2021 Page: 16 of 46 whether he could escape before he got crushed” between a moving and a stationary vehicle
• noting that the officer was standing between two vehicles as plaintiff drove toward him and had less than three seconds to “escape before he got crushed”
• noting that “material issues of disputed fact are not a factor in the court’s analysis of qualified immunity” because such issues are eliminated when district courts “take the facts in the light most favorable to the party asserting the injury”

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