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Fourth Circuit: No Qualified Immunity for Police Shooting Homeowner without Warning

Loaded on Aug. 11, 2016

Filed under: Shootings, Qualified Immunity. Location: North Carolina.

The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed the denial of qualified immunity to police who repeatedly shot a homeowner without warning.

Just after 11 p.m., on May 2, 2007, a 911 call reported "that an altercation was occurring at the Cooper property" in rural Leland, North Carolina. Dispatch relayed the ...

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