Kim D. Lee v. Luis Ferraro

How courts have described this case

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• holding that slamming arrestee's head against trunk after securing him in handcuffs was \objectively unreasonable and clearly unlawful\
• holding that slamming arrestee’s head against trunk after securing him in handcuffs was “objectively unreasonable and clearly unlawful”
• holding that slamming a handcuffed ar-restee’s head against a vehicle violated the Fourth Amendment
• holding that once an arrest has been fully secured and any potential danger or risk of flight vitiated, a police officer cannot employ severe and unnecessary force
• holding that “there can be no doubt that [the police officer defendant] was acting in his discretionary capacity when he arrested [the plaintiff]”
• concluding that “[t]he Fourth Amendment’s freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures encompasses the plain right to be free from the use of excessive force.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).