A Memphis case from the past affords some clue to Supreme Court nomineee Samuel Alito’s legal thinking:





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Shoot To Kill
Alito’s blank check for cops.
By Emily Bazelon
in Slate
Posted Friday, Dec. 2, 2005, at 6:06 PM ET

 

 

 


Favors deadly force when even cops don't Click image to expand.

Favors deadly force
when even cops don’t

Late on an October night in 1974, Memphis, Tenn.,
 police officer
Elton Hymon responded
to a call about a break in. At the scene, a
neighbor
said she’d heard glass
shattering and pointed to
the house
next door. Hymon
went behind it. He heard a
door slam. Someone ran
into the yard
and stopped at a 6-foot-high
chain-link fence at the
yard’s edge.
Hymon shined his flashlight
at the person and saw a
teenager who
he could tell was unarmed.
Hymon called, “Police, halt.”
The teen started
climbing the fence. Hymon
shot him in the back of the
head, fatally.
Edward Garner was a
15-year-old black eighth
grader. He
was 5 feet
4 inches tall and weighed
about 110 pounds. A purse
and $10
were found on
his body.

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