Shooting nude man ‘unreasonable’

BATON ROUGE, La. — A federal court in Louisiana declined to dismiss an excessive force lawsuit against the city of Baton Rouge and the fire investigator who left his barber shop chair to confront a nude, intoxicated man who was hitting the city truck. The investigator shot the man, resulting in a spinal cord injury that paralyzed him from the waist down; the man has sufficiently argued that this was not a reasonable exercise of force.