.... Q. And what distraction device was that? A. The distraction device, it emits smoke and also a loud bang and a loud flash.... Q. Okay. And what's it called? A. It's a distraction device or also known as a flash bang. Det. Sgt. Check explained that a "flash bang" is a device "you...beyond the point of anything. I'll sustain the objection." Although defense counsel had objected to Det. Sgt. Check's direct testimony concerning the use of a "flash bang" device, he...

...warrant. Specifically, Boyd argues that the use of a "flash-bang" device constituted excessive force under the circumstances. The flash-bang grenade is a light/sound diversionary device designed to...people would be sleeping inside the apartment. In light of these circumstances, Sergeant Skinner, the SWAT Team supervisor, determined that a flash-bang device should be used to gain...the dark apartment and, without looking, tossed the flash-bang near the front wall and a few feet from the door. As it turned out, Boyd was sleeping on the floor, near the front wall where the flash-bang came to rest. Consequently, Boyd suffered burns on her forearm when the device ignited...

...was knocked to the floor. Simultaneously, she heard a loud explosion from the flash-bang device which the officers had thrown into her home. At some point during this sequence, Heft suffered injury to...Moore was the only one who could have given Heft the bruise on her back because she was hit at the exact moment the flash-bang device went off. Heft theorizes that immediately after Moore used the...battering ram to open the door, he waited until the flash-bang device was thrown into the house, and then used the two-second gap before the device went off to "jump through the door off to the side...

...utilized by the Defendants, twelve times the incapacitating level of tear gas necessary, the use of flash bang devices within the tear-gas-filled room, and the throwing of the flash bang device into a....3d 384 (7th Cir. 2001), we discussed, in dicta, the potentially serious injuries that may arise from the use of a flash bang device during a search. We suggested that a sufficiently careful (or...perhaps reasonable) use of a flash bang device occurs when officers take a moment to look inside a residence or a room to ensure that no one would be injured by the device before tossing it and where...

...within, and after approximately 10 seconds the officers forced open the front door. After quickly looking inside, the officers tossed a flash-bang device into the house.... At trial, a government witness described a flash-bang device as "a large firecracker inside a metal housing." The device is commonly used to distract...that the use of a flash-bang device in executing the search was unreasonable. The trial court denied the motion to suppress, and the case proceeded to trial. Second, at trial...

...ensure it was unoccupied and then dropped a "flash-bang" device inside of the doorway. Approximately two to five seconds later the device detonated, causing a loud bang and a flash of bright light...in the basement, and a voice said that there were no children present. Officers looked to the bottom of the stairs to ensure that no one was in the area, and then dropped a second flash-bang device into... Morris argues that the use of the second flash-bang device was unreasonable and that his inculpatory statements and the two guns should have been suppressed as fruits of a Fourth Amendment violation...

...flash bang device to distract Helman. At this point, the sequence of events becomes less clear. According to the district court opinion, Helman turned in response to the commotion caused by the flash...favorable to the plaintiff. Helman asserts that when the flash bang device detonated, he turned but he did not reach for his weapon until after that device...force. Specifically, he asserts that when the flash bang device detonated, he had a cup of coffee and a bottle of water in his hands. He maintains that he did not reach for his gun until after the...

...decline to exercise jurisdiction as to Sandusky County's appeal, reverse the district court's denial of summary judgment on qualified immunity grounds as to the use of the flash-bang device for defendants...would detonate a diversionary or "flash-bang" device; 4) Dorsey would open the door and come in last; and 4) the TRT would then apprehend Jones. The TRT initiated the plan at 11:30 p.m...there were no flammable objects, Karn deployed the flash-bang device. Mario, Jose, and Karn then rushed into the living room to Jones's side and slightly from behind, repeatedly shouting "Sheriff's...

...moved from the second to the third floor of the home, they deployed a flash-bang device. Walsh explained that a flash-bang is used if the...marijuana, a handgun, hollow point bullets, and shotgun shells. "A flash-bang has been described as a 'device that emits an..., 454 (2013) (LaVecchia, J., dissenting)). The TPD's report stated the flash-bang device was deployed in the third-floor attic. On April 16, 2013, defendant and Scott were...

... The Flash-Bang Device This Court previously outlined the facts of this case (Doc. 81). This suit arises out of the July 11, 2010 shooting death of Jones. On that day...plan. The TRT planned to enter through the backdoor, detonate a flash-bang device as a diversion after entry, and then apprehend Jones. At approximately 11:30 p.m., three TRT members covertly entered...threw a flash-bang device into the living room (Doc. 39-7 at 16). After detonation of the flash-bang, the three TRT members rushed into the living room, identifying themselves as law enforcement and...

...the local officers who entered the premises and secured the scene before the search. County law enforcement officers used a flash bang device to enter the Means residence. A flash...officials searched the residence, they arrested Wendell Means. The flash bang device burned Debra Means's leg, fractured her left small toe, and blew the nail off a toe. Debra Means remained in the...bang device is a distraction device utilized by law enforcement personnel under various circumstances. After the local officers secured the premises, FBI agents searched the house. While they were in...

...search Nguyen's home on October 29, 1999 at 8:07 p.m. Sioux City Special Officers first deployed a "flash bang" distraction device in the back yard of the house, then knocked on the front door..., announced themselves, and less than five seconds later, deployed a second "flash bang" device in the front living room when Nguyen partially opened the front door. The officers then entered the house. The...second "flash bang" device landed near Nguyen's pant leg, which caught on fire, burning his foot and leg. At 8:12 p.m. an officer took Nguyen outside and read him his Miranda...

...against CEVS for alleged hearing loss suffered by a spectator at a municipal event. The only dispute between the parties is whether the “flash bang” device that was detonated as part of a demonstration...suffering, medical expenses and interfered with his ability to enjoy life.” (Dkt. 1-1 at ¶¶ 23-30). He claimed these injuries resulted from the detonation of a “flash bang” device that was part of a...lights, smoke or noise.” (Dkt. 75 at ¶ 24; Dkt. 79 at ¶ 24). The parties also stipulate that the Underlying Lawsuit asserts a flash bang device was used at the demonstration where Mr. Rafferty's...

..."flash-bang" device. Although the record contains no details of the particular device used, it was allegedly of sufficient temperature to burn holes in a rug and percussive force to rupture the speakers...was false and misleading; that there was no basis for a "no-knock" warrant; and that the manner in which the police executed the warrant, with their use of a "flash-bang" device, was unreasonable, and...authorize a no-knock warrant. Defendant's final contention is that the use of the "flash-bang" device was so unreasonable in the situation presented that the evidence seized during the...

..., tossed in a concussion grenade (which the police call a "flash-bang device"). A concussion grenade produces a brilliant flash and a loud noise designed to stun and disorient persons nearby, making...entries are proper; by the same token, police cannot automatically throw bombs into drug dealers' houses, even if the bomb goes by the euphemism "flash-bang device." The police did not...was inevitable. Murray v. United States, 487 U.S. 533, 536-41 (1988). A battering ram, flash-bang device, or blow to the neck could affect...

...use a flash-bang device while executing the warrant, based on Jones's criminal history, which he understood included aggravated assault...course" been different. Harbourt described a flash-bang device as a pyrotechnic device that emits a bright flash, of six to ten million candela of light and a "very loud bang...," at approximately 174 decibels. When thrown into a room, it stuns the occupants, allowing the police to subdue them more easily. The flash-bang device itself does not explode or fragment, nor does it...

...: POINT I BECAUSE THE OFFICERS DID NOT ALLOW A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME TO ELAPSE BEFORE ENTERING THE RESIDENCE USING FORCE, AND BECAUSE THE DEPLOYMENT OF A FLASH-BANG DEVICE INDOORS.... On cross-examination, Sergeant Walsh was asked whether he authorized the use of a flash-bang device upon entry. Walsh responded...that the other members of his team are permitted to use a flash-bang device if they deem it "tactically needed to create a diversion." Defendant and two others were found inside the house and detained...

...knock-and-announce search warrant that included the use of a flash-bang device. The Manalapan Police Department investigated defendant after an anonymous informant reported that he...team would deploy a "flash-bang" diversionary device, designed to generate an intense flash of light and loud noise, in defendant's driveway and then to proceed into the garage. The second team would...of August 24, 2007. After defendant opened the garage door and was standing with another man on the driveway near the open door, the first team deployed a flash-bang device on the driveway and...

.... The tool can also provide a means to open and view an interior area. Defendant Quinn's assignment was to deploy a flash bang device when the entrance on the west side of the...building was breached with a battering ram. A flash bang is an explosive in a steel canister with a mechanical fuse. The fuse is contained by what is called a spoon. The spoon is placed in the palm of the hand. The device does...' expert testified that the flash bang can be a lethal device if not exploded in a safe area. He defined a safe area as within a three-to-five-foot circumference. Defendants' expert...