Mythbusting the Moment of Threat: Barnes v. Felix in the Context of Unreasonable Police Seizures

Authors

• Coleson Manade

Abstract

A traffic stop for unpaid toll violations should not end in death. Yet on April 28, 2016, Officer Roberto Felix shot and killed Ashtian Barnes during a routine traffic stop for a non-arrestable offense. The legal battle that followed exposed a fundamental tension in Fourth Amendment jurisprudence: how should courts balance officers’ safety concerns with citizens’ rights when analyzing excessive force claims?

Recommended Citation

Coleson Manade, Mythbusting the Moment of Threat: Barnes v. Felix in the Context of Unreasonable Police Seizures, 91 Mo. L. Rev. ()
Available at: https://scholarship.law.missouri.edu/mlr/vol91/iss3/17