Police Who Shot at Backfiring Van Granted Immunity in Suit
Two Kansas City, Missouri, police officers who opened fire on a vehicle after responding to a report of gunshots are immune in a civil rights lawsuit, a federal appeals court ruled Monday. "My van is backfiring," the van's driver, Philip Ransom, told police that night, according to dashboard video that captured the shooting.
June 22, 2015 at 08:11 PM
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Two Kansas City, Missouri, police officers who opened fire on a vehicle after responding to a report of gunshots are immune in a civil rights lawsuit, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.
A unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit overturned a trial judge who said the officers could be held liable for the shooting that night in November 2010 on the side of a road near I-435.
The police, who fired eight times, striking the van but not the driver, never found a shooter. In fact, there wasn't one. So what happened?
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