An Alabama police officer must face a civil rights suit filed by the estate of a man she shot and killed while he was trying to surrender a stray dog at the animal shelter, after the Eleventh Circuit said she isn’t immune Thursday.
Dothan, Ala., Sergeant Adrianne Woodruff should have known that using deadly force on Robert Lawrence wasn’t warranted under the circumstances, Judge Ed Carnes said.
Lawrence and his family found the dog in the Dothan Walmart on December 30, 2014, and took it to the county shelter. Because Lawrence wasn’t a county resident, the receptionist wouldn’t take the ...
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