Hollamon v. County of Wright
In brief
- Where it stands
- Dismissed
Petition denied.
- What it’s about
- Joshua Hollamon’s petition says the Eighth Circuit wrongly ruled that an officer acted reasonably in shooting him in the head with pepperballs during a nonviolent protest, causing a brain injury, because he and other protesters disobeyed police commands.
Summary: written with AI from the case record.
What it's about
Question presented
Whether an officer acts reasonably under the Fourth Amendment in shooting a nonviolent, passively resisting protester in the head with pepperballs, resulting in brain injury, because the protester and fellow protesters “instigated the need for officer engagement by disobeying officers’ commands”?
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