Legal Opinion
Strand v. Minchuk
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided November 8, 2018No. 18-1514PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Scudder, Circuit Judge.
We consider whether the district court erred at summary judgment in denying qualified immunity to a police officer who, in the context of an argument and fist fight over parking tickets, shot a semi-truck driver. The officer fired the shot after the driver stopped fighting, stepped back from the officer, and-with his hands in the air-twice said "I surrender." The district court concluded that a material question of fact existed as to whether the driver continued to pose a threat at the exact moment the officer fired the shot.
We affirm. We cannot read the facts in the…
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