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191878P.pdf   05/13/2020  Hope White  v.  United States
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-1878
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Wollman, Author, with Gruender and Shepherd, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Federal Tort Claims Act. There was no indication the 
   government intentionally destroyed the original recordings of the shooting 
   incident in question in order to suppress the truth, and the district 
   court did not err in deciding not to draw a negative inference from 
   deletion of the data; in light of the facts, the district court properly 
   determined BATF Agent Hansen reasonably believed deadly force was 
   necessary to protect himself and other agents and that he acted reasonably 
   by firing his weapon and killing plaintiff's decedent; the Federal Tort 
   Claims judgment for the United States bars plaintiff's Bivens action and 
   the matter must be remanded to the district court with directions to 
   vacate the judgment for Hansen on the Bivens claim and dismiss the claim.