United States Second Circuit

Supervisory police officers are entitled to qualified immunity where subordinate officers intervened in an attempt to avert the apparently imminent suicide of a distraught young man armed with a rifle and was killed by gunshot from one of the subordinate officers' guns.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/08/2001
• Published 01/08/2001

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• United States Second Circuit

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