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192045P.pdf   08/21/2020  Antoinette Liggins  v.  Michael Cohen
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  19-2045
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Shepherd and Erickson, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. The district court erred in denying the 
   defendant police officer's motion for summary judgment based on qualified 
   immunity; the defendant officer had reasonable grounds to believe that the 
   plaintiff's son, who was fleeing officers and carrying a stolen weapon the 
   officers were seeking, could raise the gun and shoot; the incident 
   happened so quickly that the defendant officer had no time to discern 
   whether the young man was carrying the gun in an unusual manner or to 
   shout a warning before he shot; given the convergence of events and the 
   split-second timing, it was not unreasonable for the officer to shoot.