San Francisco police immune from lawsuit over woman's shooting

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

San Francisco police immune from lawsuit over woman's shooting

Justices say police did not violate the rights of mentally ill Teresa Sheehan when they forced their way into her room at a group home and shot her five times

Associated Press in Washington
Monday 18 May 2015 11.40 EDT


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Theresa Sheehan in 2013. The US supreme court will consider whether police must take special precautions when trying
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The supreme court said on Monday police are immune from a lawsuit arising from the arrest and shooting of a mentally ill woman in San Francisco.

The justices ruled that police did not violate the rights of Teresa Sheehan when they forced their way into her room at a group home and shot her five times after she came at them with a knife.

The officers had been called to take Sheehan for an emergency psychiatric evaluation after she threatened a case worker, but the situation quickly escalated.

Sheehan, then 56, was shot in the hip and the head. She survived, but had to undergo two hip replacement operations.


Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/may/18/san-francisco-police-immune-lawsuit-woman

[Demeter]

1. Why not? Because she's black?

I get so tired of this BS.

[heaven05]

2. yep, 99.9/10 sure

Getting very tired of this BS. Poor woman had problems before the police showed up, had more pain after they left. What a shitty deal the Supremes gave this woman. But then I expect nothing less and lot worse before some of them are 'replaced'.

[LisaL]

4. Black?

Do you not see her photo right there in the OP?

[TheSarcastinator]

8. perhaps you might wish to reconsider this post

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak (or post) and remove all doubt.

Seriously: do you actually think that a quick perusal of a crappy quality image is enough to allow you to identify a person by their race or heritage? You must be absolutely brilliant: I am not able to push people into easy categories so simply.

[bonniebgood]

3. willing to bet 'she came after them with a knife' is BS as well. nt

[Dont call me Shirley]

5. Maybe they will need to be institutionalized from the nightmares they will have for the rest of

their lives.

[gregcrawford]

6. So let me get this straight...

... a big, bad SWAT team couldn't overpower a little old lady armed with silverware, and they were so afraid for their lives that they had to shoot her. What a bunch of pussies.

[Sgt Preston]

7. "Immune to" not "immune from."

Yours sincerely, the Grammar Gestapo. But seriously, "immune from" is used so much that it will eventually get to be correct. It may already be in some dictionaries, like Webster's, which will take almost anything. Compare "Advocate for (such and such a policy)." That's become extremely common, too. Someday it will also be considered correct. And then there's my favorite, "I could care less," used to mean "I couldn't care less." There's an epidemic of that one. People don't hear (or say) the "n't."

[csziggy]

9. The headline is quoted from the original source - complain to The Guardian n/t

[Sgt Preston]

10. Maybe it's a Briticism, but I don't think so.

I didn't mean to "complain." I was, as they say, just saying.