Bates Ex Rel. Johns v. Chesterfield County

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• concluding with regard to escalating physical confrontation between officer and resisting suspect that officer’s use of force was reasonable “[a]t every stage of the ... incident”
• rejecting an ADA claim because “the stop, the use of force, and the arrest of Bates [an autistic teenager] were not by reason of Bates’ disability, but because of Bates’ objectively verifiable misconduct. Such reasonable police behavior is not discrimination.”
• “Knowledge of a person’s disability simply cannot foreclose officers from protecting themselves, the disabled person, and the general public when faced with threatening conduct by the disabled individual.”
• dismissing plaintiff’s wrongful arrest ADA claim

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).