Covert v. Bethel

How courts have described this case

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• granting summary judgment on failure to intervene claim where officers were six-to-ten feet away from the plaintiff when fellow officer suddenly pushed and hit the plaintiff within three- second span
• interaction consisting of a single push and hit within two seconds of each other “could not have been anticipated”
• “[P]laintiff's supervisory liability claim, based on a failure to act on information indicating that unconstitutional acts were occurring . «. fails because the other police officer defendants, including the supervising officers, had no realistic Opportunity to intercede.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).