Ngo v. Storlie

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• noting that failure to give a warning where feasible may “add[] to the unreasonableness” of an officer’s actions
• concluding “A warning under these circumstances was feasible and the failure to take an extra moment to assess the situation adds to the unreasonableness of [Officer] Storlie’s actions under the circumstances.”
• finding a submissible case of excessive force after the defendant officer shot the plaintiff, an unarmed plainclothes officer
• “[T]he court cannot say, as a matter of law, that the shooting officer made a reasonable mistake in shooting a fellow officer; courts allow a jury to decide whether the shooting officer’s actions were objectively reasonable.”
• “A denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity is immediately appeal-able [only] to the extent the appellant seeks review of the purely legal determinations made by the district court.” (quoting, Henderson v. Munn, 439 F.3d 497, 501 (8th Cir. 2006))
• \A denial of summary judgment based on qualified immunity is immediately appealable [only] to the extent the appellant seeks review of the purely legal determinations made by the district court.\ (quoting Henderson v. Munn, 439 F.3d 497, 501 (8th Cir. 2006)

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).