Beltran-Serrano v. City of Tacoma

MADSEN, J. (dissenting)

¶25 A Tacoma police officer stopped her patrol car and approached a man at the northwest corner of East 28th Street and *616Portland Avenue, a location for which police had received complaints about aggressive panhandlers. The encounter quickly escalated until the officer drew her firearm and shot the man. The majority holds that these facts support a claim of negligence, but there is no doubt that the officer acted intentionally when she shot this man and that it was the officer's action of shooting the man that caused the injury for which he now seeks compensation. The…