Eighth Circuit· 7/30/2010

Copeland v. Locke

Citations

613 F.3d 875
2010 U.S. App. LEXIS 15762
2010 WL 2977399

How courts have described this case

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holding that cuts, abrasions, and an injury to the knee support a finding of excessive force
holding that under Missouri state law, “the mayor and the board of aldermen” of a fourth-class city in Missouri “are the final policy makers” for their state law assigned duties
finding genuine dispute about whether injuries resulted because of peculiarities of plaintiff or from use of force
slamming 67-year old man against a parked vehicle, throwing him to the ground, handcuffing him, and kneeing him in the back is not de minimis force
denying qualified immunity because “[n]o reasonable police officer could believe that he had arguable probable cause” to arrest an individual for verbally challenging an officer during a traffic stop
denying summary judgment on excessive-force claim where officer slammed a sixty-seven-year-old man against a parked vehicle, threw him to the ground, handcuffed him, kneed him in the back, and clamped down on the handcuffs

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Judges: Murphy, Beam, Benton

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