Amanda Smith v. R. Ray

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that a suspect was not evading or resisting arrest when she instinctively pulled away from an officer’s sudden grip
• holding that, in “considering the reasonableness of an officer’s actions, [the Court] must consider the facts at the moment that the challenged force was employed.”
• recognizing that qualified immunity “gives government officials breathing room to make reasonable but mistaken judgments, and protects all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• recognizing that qualified immunity “gives government officials breathing room to make reasonable but 6 mistaken judgments, and protects all but the plainly incompetent or those who knowingly violate the law” (internal quotation marks omitted)
• ruling that nonviolent misdemeanors weigh against finding that significant force was justified
• holding that arrestee’s right to be free from police officer throwing her to the ground when she was only suspected of a misdemeanor and not attempting to flee was clearly established at the time for qualified immunity purposes

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