Legal Opinion

Darrell Frederick v. City of Rogers, Arkansas

Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit

Decided October 17, 2017No. 16-3523PublishedCited by 180 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

LOKEN, Circuit Judge.

Police officers called to a convenience store in Rogers, Arkansas, confronted Fal-lon Frederick, holding a four-inch folding knife and erratically pacing back and forth in a corner near two restrooms, Frederick refused to' comply with Sergeant Scott Clifton’s repeated commands to drop the knife. Officer Nick Torkelson discharged his taser but Frederick blocked one probe with her purse and charged the officers. Officer Vence 1 Motsinger, providing cover for Torkelson, shot and killed her.

The representative of Frederick’s Estate, Darrell Frederick, filed this' action…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Graham v. ConnorSupreme Court of the United States · 1989
  2. Scott v. HarrisSupreme Court of the United States · 2007
  3. White v. PaulySupreme Court of the United States · 2017
  4. City and County of San Francisco v. SheehanSupreme Court of the United States · 2015
  5. County of Los Angeles v. MendezSupreme Court of the United States · 2017

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3Cited by180 opinions

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  4. United States v. United States Currency in the Amount of Twenty-Four Thousand One Hundred Seventy Dollars ($24,170.00)District Court, E.D. New York · 1993
  5. Afiz v. Missouri Department of CorrectionsDistrict Court, E.D. Missouri · 2023

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