Police officers cannot be held liable for use-of-force consequences even when they provoke a violent confrontation, the Supreme Court has ruled. The case involved a couple that was severely injured by two California officers searching for a wanted man.
On Tuesday, the Supreme Court
ruled 8-0 in favor of Los Angeles County, California, and two deputies with the county sheriff's department. The case stems from a lawsuit against Los Angeles County and the deputies by a couple, Angel and Jennifer Mendez, who were shot repeatedly by the officers on October 1, 2010.
At the time, the Mendezes were living in a shack in the backyard of a Lancaster, California, home where the sheriff's department believed a wanted parolee-at-large was hiding.
The high court's decision overturns a
"provocation rule," created by the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The rule says a law enforcement officer can be held liable for an
"otherwise defensive use of deadly force" in cases when an officer provokes a violent encounter, but only if the provocation is an
"independent Fourth Amendment violation," according to the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review.
Comment: Kathy Griffin, after receiving all the Twitter backlash, has apologized over her disgusting visual saying she "crossed the line." Libtards like her have become so unhinged that while at the same time condemning Trump's so-called violent tendencies, that they at the same time clearly condone violence because they don't like someone. Apparently they have no clue about their own contradictions.
Not only was this act disgusting and vile, but it also apparently had a traumatic effect on Trump's 11yo son Barron, who saw the image on TV and thought that what he was seeing was actually his father's head. People like Kathy Griffin clearly do not care about anything but inciting anger and violence, and they claim to represent "progressive values???" Puh-leeze!
Update: CNN has fired Kathy Griffin.