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Shots Fired: The Misunderstandings, levels of force, 9–12, 11, 14
Misconceptions, and Myths About instances when police can use deadly,
Police Shootings (Loughlin and Flora), 9, 62–63
13–14 US Supreme Court
Shrewsberry, Randy, 28 qualified immunity and, 47–52, 50
Slave Patrols: Law and Violence in reasonable standard for use of force,
Virginia and the Carolinas (Hadden), 12 15–16, 43
slavery and origins of modern police, 12 rights of fleeing suspects, 9, 47
Smith, Michael, 44 use of physical coercion or threat by
social media platforms, 33 police, 9, 11
Sotomayor, Sonia, 50, 50–51
special weapons and tactics (SWAT) videos
teams, 21–23, 22, 25–26, 29 Ahmaud Arbery, 41
Stinson, Philip Matthew, 43 Jacob Blake, 31–32
Stop the Killing, 33 body cams, 36, 36–39, 58
strangleholds (neck restraints), 10, 18 Michael Brown, 6
SWAT teams, 21–23, 22, 25–26, 29 bystanders’ right to record police in
public places, 34–35
Tasers, 11 Philando Castile, 6
Taylor, Breonna dangers to takers of, 35–36
charges against police, 44 dismissal of allegations of police
civil lawsuit filed by family of, 46, 47, brutality not supported by, 41
51 George Floyd, 4, 5
police killing of, 20–21 Eric Garner, 6, 36
Tennessee v. Garner (1985), 9 importance as evidence of police use
Thao, Tou, 4, 43 of force, 32–33, 33
Thomson, J. Scott, 61, 62 Rodney King, 34
Tometi, Opal, 38 percentage of smartphone ownership
Trump, Donald, 30, 54 and, 33
Vitale, Alex S., 30
US Code: Title 42, Section 1983, 45
See also qualified immunity Walker, Kenneth, 20, 51
US Court of Appeals for the Seventh “wandering officers,” 48
Circuit, 35 warrior mentality of police, 28
use of excessive force Washington Post (newspaper), 32, 43,
complaints in Camden, New Jersey, 48, 56, 57, 60, 62
58, 61, 63 White, Raysean, 31, 32
criminal liability for, 42, 43 White Americans
dismissal of allegations of, not incarceration rates for low-level drug
supported by videos, 41 dealing, 23
effects of, 27–28 opinion about defunding police, 55, 60
frequency of, 15 opinion about fairness of police, 26
response to Black Lives Matter White patrols, 12
protests as, 27 Wicker, Kent, 51
standard of “reasonableness” of Wilson, Darren, 37, 38
officer’s actions, 15–16, 43 WITNESS, 33
use of force
continuum Yale Law Journal, 48
classifying actions of subject Yu, Harlan, 39
as compliant to resisting to
aggressive, 13 Zelizer, Julian, 34

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