The photos do not show Friday being abused. In fact, they don't show him at all. The court threw out Friday's lawsuit. TTS-500 reflectorless total station. They usedPhotoModeler and Accurender to create three- dimensional models of the scene.
Police officers surround a subject who is shouting threats to officers or to the public at large.
Suddenly, a man reaches into his coat, pulls out an object, and extends it toward the crowd. The officers open fire, only to find a few seconds later that the object was a comb or a wallet. National and local headlines relate these stories almost daily. Most excessive force complaints against police are founded on the oversimplistic premise that law enforcement officers are prone to overreact to threats, or that they are just plain mean. When individual cases are investigated, however, each is based on a unique set of circumstances and surroundings.