Are internal police guidelines relevant to determining whether use of force is objectively reasonable?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Scott v. Henrich, 39 F.3d 912 (9th Cir. 1992):
Assuming internal police guidelines are relevant to determining whether use of force is objectively reasonable, see Tennessee v. Garner, 471 U.S. 1, 18-19, 105 S.Ct. 1694, 1704-05, 85 L.Ed.2d 1 (1985), they are relevant only when one of their purposes is to
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