A police officer acted reasonably when, without giving a warning, he shot a Good Samaritan running toward a crime scene in a crowded mall, the Eleventh Circuit said Thursday.
Hoover, Ala., police officer David Alexander didn’t violate the Fourth Amendment rights of Emantic Bradford, because he had to make a split-second decision to shoot based on the circumstances, Judge Adalberto Jordan said for the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
Alexander and his partner were working in the Galleria Mall in Birmingham, Ala., on Thanksgiving night 2018. They heard gun shots and saw people fleeing the area. Alexander ...
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