Resh v. Hetzner

How courts have described this case

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• determining that the officer acted reasonably by firing on a plaintiff who “mov[ed] continuously in the direction of [one of the officers]”
• officer entitled to qualified immunity where plaintiff was moving quickly within fifteen feet of the officers
• qualified immunity appropriate where the officer fired after a four-hour standoff after the suspect moved threateningly toward the officers holding two knives
• “Notably, Officer Sutton's decision to fire his bean bag shotgun at the same moment indicates that Sutton has similarly concluded that Norton was close enough to justify the use of lethal force

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).