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Court limits police right
to shoot fleeing felons
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Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Police may
not shoot unarmed, fleeing crimi
nal suspects who pose no appar
ent threat to the officers or the
public, the Supreme Court ruled
Wednesday.
By a 6-3 vote, the court said a
Tennessee law that allowed unre
strained use of deadly force vio
lated the constitutional rights of
suspects.
“It is not better that all felony
suspects die than that they es
cape,” said Justice Byron R.
Wnite for the court.
Tennessee’s “fleeing felon" law
was similar to those in nearly half
the states. But in many of those
states, local police departments
for years have banned shooting
of fleeing suspects who are not
considered dangerous.
Wednesday’s ruling means the
city of Memphis may be forced to
pay the father of a 15-year-old
suspected burglar killed by police
11 years ago.
Tennessee State Rep. Joe Kent,
a Memphis police lieutenant, said
it is “a mack day for law enforce
ment.”
But Robert Angrisani, a
spokesman for the International
Association of Chiefs of Police,
called the decision “just and
proper."
Angrisani said from the asso
ciation’s offices in Gaithersburg,
Md., that the organization’s law
enforcement guidelines are al
most identical to the court’s rul
ing.
“We agree with today’s deci
sion,” he said.
In the fleeing suspect case, the
court rejected arguments by Ten
nessee law enforcement officials
that police will be hampered un
necessarily if they are forced to
make split-second decisions on
when it is permissible to shoot an
escaping suspect.
In his opinion for the court,
White said, “Where the suspect
poses no immediate threat to the
officer and no threat to others,
the harm resulting from failing to
apprehend him does not justify
the use of deadly force to do so."
He said states may still autho
rize police to shoot to kill “if the
suspect threatens the officer with
a weapon or there is probable
cause to belitfve that he has com
mitted a crime involving the in
fliction or threatened infliction of
serious physical harm.”
In such cases, the officer
should give a warning before fir
ing, White added.
The ruling suggests that some
one known to have committed a
violent crime in the past may be
considered dangerous even
though he may be fleeing from a
non-violent crime such as a bur
glary.
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Sandra Day O’Connor said the
decision creates a constitutional
right that will allow burglary sus
pects “to flee unimpeded from a
police officer ... who has no
means short of firing his weapon
to prevent escape.”
She was joined by Chief Justice
Warren E. Burger and Justice
William H. Rehnquist.
Dallas police official says
policy complies with ruling
Associated Press
DALLAS — The Dallas Police
Department, criticized in the past
by black and Hispanic groups for
its use of deadly force, is in com
pliance with a Supreme Court
ruling Wednesday on the use of
lethal force, a spokesman said.
The court said police may not
shoot unarmed suspects fleeing
from crimes when there is no ap
parent threat of harm to police
officers or others.
Dallas police spokesman Ed
Spencer said Wednesday that a
revised deadly force policy
adopted in October puts Dalhis in
line with the court’s ruling.
“Basically the new policy is that
officers can only use lethal force
to protect life,” tie said. “We’re in
compliance (with the Supreme
Court). We’re not going to have
to scramble like some others.”
The policy was more than a
year in the making and came out
of a study sparked by heated pro
tests from minorities about the
record number of police shoot
ings in Dallas, Spencer said.
The city led the nation per ca
pita in 1983 in police shootings of
citizens.
By a 6-3 vote, the court struck
down a Tennessee law that autho
rized police to shoot at fleeing fel
ons, a statute said to be similar to
those in about half the states.
Last August, just two days be
fore the start of the Republican
National Convention, Dallas po
lice Sgt. Jack Ross fatally shot a
fleeing suspect in the back.
Police Chief Billy Prince fired
Ross for violations of the code of
conduct regarding the use of ex
cessive force and placing citizens
in greater danger, Spencer said.
The unarmed suspect, Juan
Reyes, was fleeing from a fight
and had climbed a fence in a dark
alley at night. Ross shot through
the fence after ordering the man
to stop, officials said.
In Dallas, Spencer said, “for
about 10 years it has been the
practice to shoot only in defense
of life.” That was not actually in
corporated into written policy un
til October, he said.
Ross, however, was fired for vi
olating the provisions of an ad
ministrative directive dealing
with the use of excessive force, he
said.
Associated Press
BEIRUT, Lebanon — Geoffrey
Nash, the first of nine foreigners
who disappeared in Lebanon in a
two-week series of abductions, was
released unharmed Wednesday near
his home in west Beirut.
Nadia Nash, daughter of the Bri
ton, said the men who kidnapped
her father told him they had
thought he was an American.
She said they let him out of a car
in the Hamra district near their
home in the mostly Moslem sector of
the capital, and he walked up to the
door shortly after midnight.
A message from an unknown
group that belatedly claimed respon
sibility for some of the kidnappings
said another abducted Briton and a
kidnapped French woman might be
freed “very soon.”
Nash, a 60-year-old metallurgist,
was the first of nine Westerners kid
napped or reported missing in Leb
anon since March 14. The others are
two more Britons, four French citi
zens, a Dutch Roman Catholic priest
and American journalist Terry A.
Anderson, chief Middle East corre
spondent of The Associated Press.
Nash told his family there were
“hours of driving” before his release,
and his captors blindfolded him be
fore they started out, his daughter
said.
She quoted him as saying the kid
nappers questioned him at length
during the 14 days he was held, but
did him no harm and gave him the
necessary medication for a heart ail
ment. She said he did not know
where he was held.
“He was shaking, I guess from the
after-effects of the kidnapping,” she
said. “They asked him questions and
said they thought he was American.
He told them he was British and did
not work for the American Embassy.
I guess they were satisfied he was not
a spy.”
sponsibility for most of the re-
ibductions was claimed initially
Rest
cent at
by Islamic Holy War, whose mem
bers are believed to be Shiite Moslem
extremists with ties to Iran.
A rival claim was made Tuesday
by a previously unknown group call
ing itself the Khaibar Brigade. It
said it was holding Nash and busi
nessman Brian Levick,'another Bri
ton, and three French diplomats —
Vice Consul Marcel Fontaine, em
bassy protocol officer Marcel Carton
and his daughter, Danielle Perez, a
secretary at the embassy.
An anonymous caller told a West
ern news agency that “after our in
vestigation,” it had been decided to
release Nash, Levick and the French
woman “very soon.”
The British ambassador, David
Miers, said the kidnappers in
structed Nash to deliver a document
to the French consul, and “he ful
filled his promise at 9 a.m. this
morning.” He said the document
was a copy of the statement issued
Tuesday by the Khaibar Brigade.
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