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 ...

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 ...

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 was a 15-year-old black eighth ... The Department of Justice ultimately decided not to take sides in the Garner case. But when the Supreme Court eventually ruled, it rejected the ...

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 ...