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Seventh Circuit· 10/7/2015

George Dawson v. Michael Brown

Citations

  • 803 F.3d 829
  • 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 17581
  • 2015 WL 5853647

How courts have described this case

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

  • holding that an officer “could reasonably believe it was necessary to tackle” a 72-year-old man who was nonviolently interfering with his son’s arrest
  • holding that it was not excessive for officers to kick and tackle a 72-year-old father who approached officers as they were attempting to arrest his son, who was resisting arrest
  • holding as a matter of law that officer didn’t use excessive 8 force when he tackled plaintiff, who was attempting to interfere with the lawful arrest of his son
  • affirming summary judgment and holding that an officer “could reasonably believe it was necessary to tackle” a 72-year-old man who was nonviolently interfering with his son’s arrest
  • finding no excessive force where an officer tackled a suspect’s 72-year-old father because the officer reasonably believed the father was interfering with a lawful arrest and posed a threat to another officer due to his proximity to the resisting suspect
  • reasonable to tackle 72-year-old to the ground when officer believed he intended to interfere with arrest of his son

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Bauer, Williams, Hamilton

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