NATIONAL CITY, Calif. — A federal judge in California dismissed, with leave to amend, most of a family’s claims against police officers and National City after officers shot and killed a severely mentally ill man who was walking outdoors with a machete in his hand. Their disability discrimination claim survives because they plausibly alleged that the officers understood the man to be disabled but did not attempt to accommodate this in the deadly encounter.
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