Edward's father sued the Memphis Police Department. The case, Tennessee v. Garner, led to a 1985 Supreme Court decision in the family's favor that established that police can't shoot fleeing ...

Devonte Weatherford's situation isn't quite like Edward Garner's ... they still shot and killed him. Garner’s father sued, and this Memphis case, Tennessee v. Garner, ultimately led the ...

Deadly force like that applied in the Edward Garner case is just a subset of excessive force. And since police officers are given broad discretion on how and when to apply force, its definition ...

Edward Garner fled through the darkness outside ... Winter cited another study that said the same thing. Slobogin said the Garner case was the first time the U.S. Supreme Court considered the ...

When I heard that Ahmaud Arbery was killed for jogging while black through a Glynn County Georgia neighborhood on suspicion he was a burglar, I thought of Edward ... case about Garner’s killing ...

Garner. The case began 10 years and 27 days earlier, on Oct. 3, 1974, when Memphis Police Officer Elton Hymon shot 15-year-old Edward Garner in the back of the head to keep him from escaping from ...

I was a college student in 1974 and recall the death of Edward Garner, shot by the police ... I followed the case as it went through the federal courts. The US Supreme Court decided it in 1985 ...

Deadly force like that applied in the Edward Garner case is just a subset of excessive force. And since police officers are given broad discretion on how and when to apply force, its definition can ...