Can a police officer use deadly force against an unarmed man who has not pointed a gun at the officers?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Estate of Smith v. Holslag, Case No.: 16-cv-2989-WQH-MSB (S.D. Cal. 2020):
safety of others simply because they are armed."); Curnow v. Ridgecrest Police, 952 F.2d 321, 325 (9th Cir. 1991) ("[T]he police officers could not reasonably have believed the use of deadly force was lawful because [the victim] did not point the gun at the officers and apparently was not facing them when they shot him the first time.").
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