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Defense [ inaudible ] even if its mistaken. the reasonableness of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of the reasonable officer on the scene rather than with 20/20 vision and hindsight. the calculus of reasonableness must embody allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split second judgments in circumstances that are tense, uncertain and rapidly evolving. about the amount of force that is necessary in any particular situation, this is relevan...

Illinois has well established that justifiable use of force is reasonable even if it is mistaken. and the reasonableness must be judged by the perspective of the reasonable officer on the scene, and not with 20/20 hindsight, and the cal yubl reasonableness is that police officers are often forced to make split second judgments in events that are intense, and rapid e evolving, and about the amount of force used in any particular situation, and this is relevant case law. a person is justifiably al...

Judgments. we dont evaluate what they did in hindsight, we evaluate what they do based upon what we see done and is it reasonable. now, thats the issue where i depart from my colleague, jonathan, in terms of whether the officer acted appropriately or criminally. i think that no matter the lead-in, no matter what you learned about him, you know, stabbing out car tires or trying to steal cars or whatever he was doing, the analysis is, what did he do, the officers response at the time, was it appro...