Why is this case important?

https://www.objectivelyreasonable.com/2025/12/26/two-judges-on-the-sixth-circuit-determine-that-a-man-reaching-for-a-holstered-weapon-was-not-a-threatis-wearing-a-full-face-ski-mask-in-the-month-of-may-during-the-day-in-a-high-crime-neighborhood-sus/?

By the time Officers Moore and Kurtz fired a second round of shots, a reasonable officer would not have felt that Stephen presented an immediate threat.

Romero v. City of Lansing

No. 24 – 1865

Sixth Circuit Appellate Court

November 18, 2025

Romero v. City of Lansing is important because a two-judge majority of the Sixth Circuit held that, taking the facts in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, a man who had been involved in a heated domestic, who was armed, and who twice reached toward his holstered handgun could still be viewed as complying with officers when they fired the second volley of shots.