Legal Opinion
Young v. City of Providence ex rel. Napolitano
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided April 11, 2005No. Nos. 04-1374, 04-1390, 04-1418PublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LYNCH, Circuit Judge.
In January 2000, two on-duty Providence, Rhode Island, police officers, Michael Solitro and Carlos Saraiva, while responding to a call, shot and killed an off-duty Providence police officer, Cornel Young (“Cornel”), who was attempting to respond to the same incident under a city policy (the “always armed/always on-duty” policy) that required him to act despite being off-duty and out of uniform. The two on-duty officers, who are white, apparently mistook Cornel, an African-American, for a threat.
Cornel’s mother, Leisa Young (‘Young”), filed suit in federal court, as…
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