Casey v. City of Federal Heights

How courts have described this case

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• holding that the defendants' alleged use of force was excessive where the plaintiff was \suspected of innocuously committing a misdemeanor\ and \was neither violent nor attempting to flee\
• holding that force used against “a citizen peacefully attempting to return to the courthouse with a file” violated clearly established law
• holding that, where the defendant should have known the force used against the plaintiff was excessive, defendant “had some responsibility” to intervene
• holding that force used against “a citizen peacefully attempting to return to the courthouse with a file” violated clearly established law
• concluding that an officer’s use of dangerous force — including tackling, Tasering, and punching — against a suspect accused of a misdemeanor, “who was neither violent nor attempting to flee,” was unreasonable
• noting that a suspect did not flee when he “made himself easier to capture, not harder”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).