John Hopson A/k/a/ Kenneth Hayes v. Nicholas Fredericksen

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• holding that racial slurs and threats to physically harm arrestee insufficient to constitute constitutional claim under § 1983
• concluding that officer’s use of racial slur and threat to knock prisoner’s teeth out was not actionable
• holding that “mere verbal threats made by a state actor do not constitute a § 1983 claim”
• stating that, in general, “mere verbal threats made by a state-actor do not constitute a § 1983 claim”
• stating that, in general, “mere verbal threats made by a state-actor do not constitute a § 1983 claim”
• finding officer’s use of racial slur and threat to knock prisoner’s teeth out was not actionable

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