Ramon Garcia Maria Morfin Garcia v. United States of America, U.S. Dept. Of Justice & I & Ns

How courts have described this case

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• holding that deadly force was reasonable where the plaintiff attacked a border patrol agent with a rock and stick
• declining to impose liability on officer who, in attempting to arrest juvenile non-felon, used deadly force against bystander who attacked officer in order to free juvenile
• “While law enforcement involves exercise of a certain amount of discretion on the part of individual officers, such decisions do not involve the sort of generalized social, economic and political policy choices that Congress intended to exempt from tort liability.”
• “While law enforcement involves exercise of a certain amount of discretion on the part of individual officers, such decisions do not involve the sort of generalized social, economic and political policy choices that Congress intended to exempt from tort liability.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).