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Road Shooting

The supervisors of a police communications operator were entitled to immunity in her suit claiming they fired her in retaliation for her exercising her Second Amendment rights after she shot another driver in a road range incident, the Seventh Circuit ruled. The woman was acquitted of attempted murder but caselaw has not clearly established that her shooting was “constitutionally protected.”

CHICAGO — The supervisors of a police communications operator were entitled to immunity in her suit claiming they fired her in retaliation for her exercising her Second Amendment rights after she shot another driver in a road range incident, the Seventh Circuit ruled. The woman was acquitted of attempted murder but caselaw has not clearly established that her shooting was “constitutionally protected.” 

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