Norman Slattery v. Christopher Rizzo

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• holding that the shooting of an individual, suspected of narcotics trafficking, was objectively reasonable when the suspect ignored commands to raise his hands and turned in the officers' direction with his hand partially closed around an object
• holding that deadly force was appropriate when the suspect failed to comply with the officer's order to raise his hands and the officer reasonably believed the suspect to be coming at him with a weapon, although the \weapon\ turned out to be a beer bottle
• holding that an officer reasonably feared for his life after he twice ordered the suspect to put his hands up, but the suspect ignored those commands, instead reaching down to an area out of the officer’s sight and grabbing an object that turned out to be a beer bottle
• reversing the denial of the officers’ summary judgment motion despite the fact that it was determined, after the plaintiff was shot in the face, that the plaintiff was not, as the officers believed, armed with a weapon
• police officer's belief that suspect was reaching for gun was \reasonable\ even though object turned out to be a bottle
• officer did not violate clearly established law when he used deadly force against a suspect in a stopped vehicle who repeatedly refused to show his hands and appeared to grip an object

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).