GONZALEZ, MICHAEL v. SHERIFF, WAYNE COUNTY

How courts have described this case

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• holding that two incidents of excessive force could not “be considered a pattern of widespread and pervasive unconstitutional conduct”
• holding that two instances of excessive force are not a pattern of widespread and pervasive conduct
• holding that two or three instances a year apart is not a custom
• holding that a single set of individual circumstances cannot create a custom
• holding that two prior incidents of excessive force in violation of a municipal policy could not establish a municipal custom and collecting cases reaching same holding based on as many as eleven prior incidents of misconduct
• explaining that a suit against government officials in their official capacities \must be treated as a suit against the\ entity itself

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