HOLMES, Circuit Judge.
Over thirty years ago, the Supreme Court recognized the cold reality 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 a particular situation." Graham v. Connor,
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