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McKINNEY BY McKINNEY v. DeKALB COUNTY, GA.

No. 92-8324.

997 F.2d 1440 (1993)

Abdul K. McKINNEY, by his mother and next friend, Bessie A. McKINNEY, and Bessie A. McKinney, Individually, Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. DeKALB COUNTY, GEORGIA; S.C. Nelson, Individually and as a DeKalb County Police Officer; J.B. Duncan, Individually and as a DeKalb County Police Sergeant; Robert T. Burgess, Individually and as DeKalb County Chief of Police, and Thomas E. Brown, Jr., Individually and as a Director of the DeKalb County Department of Public Safety, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

August 17, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Melinda Bruley White, County Atty., Decatur, GA, for defendants-appellants.

Freeman & Hawkins, Alan F. Herman, William G. Scoggin, Gregory M. Stokes, Chris Wilkerson, Atlanta, GA, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Before TJOFLAT, Chief Judge, KRAVITCH, Circuit Judge, and RONEY, Senior Circuit Judge.

RONEY, Senior Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs Bessie McKinney and her son Abdul brought this action after a DeKalb County police officer shot and wounded Abdul. Plaintiffs asserted Fourteenth Amendment due process and Fourth Amendment unreasonable seizure claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, as well as state constitutional and tort claims, against DeKalb County, the county police officer who fired the shots, the county police sergeant who was present at the shooting, the...

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