Ashtian Barnes, an unarmed Black man, was killed by an officer in 2016 after being pulled over outside Houston while driving his girlfriend’s rental car, which had unpaid toll fees.

Barnes, whose son Ashtian Barnes was shot and killed by an officer, argued that the justices only needed to rule that courts should look to the totality of circumstances in excessive force claims.

A U.S. Supreme Court case will determine what should be legally considered when deciding if a police officer’s use of force is justified. Upcoming trials in central ...

A routine traffic stop in Texas turned deadly within seconds when a police officer shot and killed 24-year-old Ashtian Barnes in 2016. The Supreme Court weighed Monday whether courts should ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed inclined to revive a civil rights lawsuit against the Texas police officer who shot a man to death during a traffic stop in Houston over unpaid ...

Justices appeared to be open to writing a narrow decision that could reopen the lawsuit over Ashtian Barnes’ death, but at least one member of the court, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, openly ...

Those issues arose from a lawsuit brought by the mother of a 24-year-old man, Ashtian Barnes, who was fatally shot by a Texas traffic enforcement officer in 2016 after Barnes was stopped because ...

The Supreme Court spent nearly 80 minutes Wednesday debating a traffic stop outside Houston that turned deadly in just five seconds.

Ashtian Barnes, 24, was killed in 2016 Houston incident Mother sued cop over alleged constitutional violation Standard to judge officer's action at issue in case Jan 22 (Reuters) - The U.S ...

Listen to the hearing in the player above. Barnes v. Felix is a Texas case that began when Ashtian Barnes was pulled over by police in 2016 for outstanding toll violations. According to court ...