In Re Joseph Jackson Baylor Asset Management LLC RL 360 Funding LLC JCLZ Legacy LLC DCT Entity Management LLC DVI Opportunities Unlimited, Inc, Kilgore Commons, LLC v. the State of Texas

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• holding that defendants’ actions in pepper spraying and throwing a non-violent, non-threatening suspected misdemeanant to the ground were unlawful
• holding that pepper spraying and throwing a non-violent, non-threatening suspected misdemeanant to the ground was unlawful
• holding that macing and throwing suspect to ground was excessive where plaintiff was unarmed and “posed at most a minimal safety threat to the officers”
• holding that making and throwing suspect to the ground was excessive when plaintiff was unarmed and “posed at most a minimal safety threat to the officers”
• holding “the law was sufficiently clear to inform a reasonable officer that it was unlawful to throw to the ground and mace a nonviolent, suspected misdemeanant who was not fleeing or herself resisting arrest”
• denying qualified immunity to officer who threw to the ground and maced a nonviolent, non-threatening suspected misdemeanant

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