In Re City of Houston v. the State of Texas

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• holding that it was reasonable for officer to employ a straight-arm bar takedown during the execution of an arrest warrant, even where the arrestee was cooperative and where no evidence suggested he was armed or posed a threat
• explaining that when a crime is not violent or serious, it “weighs in favor of using less force in arresting someone for such conduct” (citation omitted)
• noting that a police officer had no way of assessing whether a “cooperative,” yet intoxicated suspect who did not possess a weapon or make verbal or physical threats to officers had threatened the officer
• doing the same, noting “it was not clear to” the officer “whether [the suspect] posed an immediate threat to him”
• deeming takedown reasonable despite absence of threats or a weapon where a crowd formed around officers, a suspect fled, and the remaining suspect was visibly intoxicated and subject to an arrest warrant
• finding officer’s placement of a knee on subject’s back to effectuate handcuffing objectively reasonable

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).