Denise Green v. City & County of San Francisco

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that the officers “could have held their weapons at a ‘low ready’ position rather than pointing them directly at [the establish that the crime of vehicular theft alone foreclosed the lower degree of force used here. 4 suspect].”
• suggesting the low-ready position as a less intrusive alternative to pointing a gun at suspect’s head
• “It was established at the time of the incident that individuals may not be subjected to seizure . . . without reasonable suspicion.”
• “Where [government] interests do not support a need for force, ‘any force used is constitutionally unreasonable.’”
• “Where [government] interests do not support a need for force, any force used is constitutionally unreasonable.” (quotations and citation omitted)
• “Green was also considerably outnumbered, which counts against a finding that she posed a threat to the multiple officers at the scene.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).