Copeland v. Locke

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

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).