Perry Manley

Deadly force

For the previous 15 years Manley had developed into a vexacious litigant on the topic of the unfairness of child support. Familiar to the security staff at the federal courthouse, when he showed up with improvised armament (a drilled-out inactive hand grenade, a cutting board for a bulletproof vest) they negotiated with him for 20 minutes. Finally a local officer interpreted his "furtive" movements as threatening and shot him to death.