Slaughter v. Mayor and City Council of Baltimore

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that the victim’s “option of declining to participate [in a live-fire training session was] sufficient to defeat the [state-created danger] claim”
• noting that the theory behind the state-created danger doctrine “is that a state actor should be liable when that actor affirmatively puts a victim in harm’s way without giving the victim a choice about whether to face the peril or not”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).