Seventh Circuit· 12/14/2011

Curtis Shields v. Thomas Dart

Citations

664 F.3d 178
2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 24742
2011 WL 6256960

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holding that officers’ fifteen-to-twenty-minute delay in arriving at scene of attack was “troubling” but did not constitute deliberate indifference
holding that officer who did not “command . . . detainees to stop the attack” and instead “monitor[ed] the fight from the secure area until other officers arrived” was not deliberately indifferent
discussing claim that prison officials had deliberately ignored threats to pretrial detainee’s safety after guard, speaking in earshot of other prisoners, had misidentified him as leader of Black Disciples
upholding district court’s finding that prison guard was not deliberately indifferent to risk posed by a fight because she had “[taken] [] steps to intervene by promptly calling for back-up and monitoring the fight from the secure area until other officers arrived”
correctional officers who are present during a violent altercation between prisoners are not deliberately indifferent for acting “with a due regard for their safety”
no deliberate indifference where officer observed fight, called for backup, and monitored the fight for fifteen to twenty minutes before intervening with other officers to stop the fight

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Judges: Posner, Rovner, Hamilton

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