STATE ex rel. OKLAHOMA BAR ASSOCIATION v. DUNIVAN

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• observing that officers “may have been reasonable in concluding that ‘a man who greets law enforcement with a firearm is likely to pose a deadly threat’” (quoting Cooper v. Sheehan, 735 F.3d 153, 159 (4th Cir. 2013))
• no qualified immunity where officer forcibly entered home without identifying himself, and shot resident who was holding a firearm pointed down
• no qualified immunity where officer forcibly entered home without identifying himself, and shot resident who was holding a firearm pointed down
• “The Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement officers from using excessive or unreasonable force in the course of making an arrest or otherwise seizing a person.” (citing Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386, 395 (1989))
• “[H]ad Betton disobeyed a command given by the officers, such as to drop his weapon or to ‘come out’ with his hands raised, Officer Belue reasonably may have feared for his safety upon observing Betton holding a gun at his side.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).