Legal Opinion
Clark v. Colbert
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided July 17, 2018No. 17-7046PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Chief Judge.
This case involves an encounter between law enforcement and a schizophrenic individual suffering a psychotic episode. Officers from the Wagoner County Sheriff's Department responded to a call from Gary Clark's brother, who was having troubling restraining him. The Sheriff's Department, in turn, requested help from the neighboring Broken Arrow Police Department. The Broken Arrow officers tried to subdue Clark through nonlethal means. Those means failed. The officers thus resorted to lethal force, shooting Clark as he charged them with a large kitchen knife. Clark…
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