Michigan Police Officers Must Face Widow’s Excessive Force Claim

A Michigan woman can pursue an excessive force claim against two city police officers who shot and killed her husband, a split appeals court decided.

Ashly Romero sufficiently pleaded that the officers violated her husband’s Fourteenth Amendment rights when they fired “a second, deadly round of shots at him” while he lay on the ground injured, the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit said in a Tuesday opinion reversing dismissal of the excessive force claim.

Judge Richard Allen Griffin partially dissented, saying, in his view, the Lansing police officers ...