Harrison v. Prince William County Police Department

How courts have described this case

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

• concluding that placing non-resisting suspect in headlock, slamming him to the ground, and grinding his face into the pavement was not reasonable force
• explaining that the coupling of a racial slur with excessive force created an “inference” of intentional discrimination
• denying motion to dismiss when complaint alleged that officer had used racial slur after putting the plaintiff in a headlock, dropping the plaintiff to the ground, and grinding the plaintiff’s head into pavement
• “The requirement that an officer have probable cause to seize and arrest an individual has been clearly established constitutional law for decades.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).