Gallegos v. City of Colorado Springs

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that the use of an “arm bar maneuver” and “take-down” of an individual was reasonable to protect the safety of two officers in light of the individual’s “strange and aggressive conduct”
• concluding an officer “grabbing] [an individual’s] arm three separate times” during a Terry-type detention comported with the Fourth Amendment because, in part, the officer’s “actions consisted of a relatively minor application of force”
• holding officer’s use of bar arm maneuver and take down of suspect was reasonable when suspect was acting strange and aggressive, and officer feared suspect would strike officer’s partner with his free arm
• considering the time of night, 1:15 a.m., in concluding reasonable suspicion existed based on the totality of the circumstances
• examining “whether the Terry stop escalated into an arrest following the application of the arm bar maneuver,” a forceful technique
• examining “whether the Terry stop escalated into an arrest following the application of the arm bar maneuver,” a forceful technique

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).