Allen v. City of Atlanta

Pope, Presiding Judge.

Atlanta Police Officer Kenneth Allen and two other officers were on duty in Gilliam Park where there had been complaints of drug use and prostitution. They approached a parked Jeep with two people in it. The officers identified themselves as police and Allen saw that the vehicle’s steering column was broken. The people sitting in the vehicle ignored the officers’ orders to get out of the Jeep. The person sitting in the driver’s seat started the vehicle and drove toward Allen. As the vehicle came at him, Allen fired a shot from his gun into the driver’s side window. The…