Disciplinary Counsel v. Fecher

How courts have described this case

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• use of force without probable cause to arrest permissible if “precipitated by the conduct of the individual being detained”
• where nine officers, without drawing guns, ordered a taxi off the road and surrounded passengers, show of force was sufficiently intrusive to constitute an arrest
• where nine officers, without drawing guns, ordered a taxi off the road and surrounded passengers, show of force was sufficiently intrusive to constitute an arrest
• arrest complete when nine officers ordered taxi off road, surrounded and removed passengers from vehicle, although guns not drawn
• arrest complete when nine officers ordered taxi off road, surrounded and removed passengers from vehicle, although guns not drawn
• “... a significant consideration [in determining whether an arrest occurred] is the extent that freedom of movement is curtailed”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).