Camera supported qualified immunity when subject killed by officers
Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) Demarious Davis drove a Maserati SUV with Isaiah Hutchinson as one of his passengers in the early hours of March 17, 2019, when a Monte Carlo rear-ended them. The City’s High Activity Location Observer (HALO) camera network captured what happened next: Davis pulled […]
Officer was reasonable in shooting at person who quickly aimed a flashlight at her
Facts (If you are new to 1983 actions, click here for help) In the early morning of October 7, 2020, Officer Halie Watkins responded to two separate 911 calls, both of which originated from a duplex in Victoria, Texas. One came from Rosalia Flores, who was in one of the units with Rico Macias. Flores […]
Mississippi CI tip led to valid stop of vehicle
Facts On the night of February 27, 2022, Mary Smith and her sister were at their mother’s home. Smith’s sister told her that Smith’s daughter, Jane, was in possession of an ounce of methamphetamine and an ounce of fentanyl and needed to be picked up and driven back to the home. Smith’s sister left to […]
Search valid here even when dog failed to alert on car
Facts On February 22, 2022, National Park Service Ranger Chris Calkins initiated a traffic stop of Wesley Perkins’s car as he was travelling in Padre Island National Seashore. The basis for the stop was a tag violation, as Perkins’s car had a 72-hour temporary tag that was not valid until February 24. As Calkins approached […]
Air force chaplain child predator apprehended lawfully
Facts A detective with the San Antonio Police Department’s Human Exploitation Unit conducted undercover operations via the online social media platform MocoSpace, to catch child predators. In November 2020, the detective set up an online profile using the undercover persona of a 16-year- old girl named “Amandpand.” On November 10, 2020, Amandpand entered the “Near […]
Waiting 10 minutes for K-9 is reasonable after developing reasonable suspicion to extend the stop
Facts On June 14, 2019, Leopoldo Gonzalez was driving through Texas on U.S. 287 when State Trooper Daniel Manney observed him traveling 91 miles per hour in a 75-miles-per-hour zone and stopped him for speeding. The trooper’s body and in-car cameras captured the entire encounter. The trooper approached the passenger side of Gonzalez’s vehicle, informed […]