Tyralyn Harris v. New Orleans Police Depart

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• explaining that “any of the officers’ actions leading up to the shooting are not relevant for the purposes of an excessive force inquiry in this Circuit”
• finding that officers reasonably feared for their safety when the suspect was “standing up out of bed and had raised the knife above his head” at the moment of the shooting
• upholding the district court’s dismissal of the Monell claims because the plaintiffs had not shown there was a constitutional violation
• upholding the district court's dismissal of the Monell claims because the plaintiffs had not shown there was a constitutional violation
• upholding the district court’s dismissal of the Monell claims because the plaintiffs had not shown there was a constitutional violation
• upholding the district court’s dismissal of the Monell claims because the plaintiff had not shown there was a constitutional violation

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