Flint v. City of Belvidere

Dist. Ct. did not err in granting defendants-police officials’ motion for summary judgment in section 1983 action alleging that plaintiff’s decedent was targeted and killed in retribution for his actions as police informant, and that defendants were liable for failing to protect him. Fourteenth Amendment imposes no general duty on state to protect individuals from harm by private actors, and plaintiff otherwise failed to establish any causation linking murder of plaintiff’s decedent by unknown assailant to any disclosure by defendants that decedent was police informant.