NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit upheld a Texas federal court’s denial of qualified immunity to former cop Aaron Dean, who shot and killed Atatiana Jefferson in her home within seconds of encountering her and without first identifying himself as police, on her family’s excessive force claim. The lower court also denied him immunity on the family’s unreasonable search claim, but the appellate panel reverses, seeing no case law establishing that Dean’s perimeter sweep of the house was objectively unreasonable.
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