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Type
Dissent
Filed
June 18, 2019
Case
Herman Harris v. Zachary Pittman
Case status
Decided

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WILKINSON, Circuit Judge, dissenting: This dispute began when Herman Harris fled from Officer Zachary Pittman, after repeatedly being told to stop. Pittman caught up to Harris at the edge of a tree line and both men fell many feet down into the woods. In the ensuing struggle, the suspect fought off a taser and repeatedly struck Pittman. As Harris later admitted in a guilty plea for this assault, he tried to shoot Pittman…

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