Kishna Brown v. Bradley Lewis

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• holding that a jury could find malice where an officer threw an otherwise cooperative subject to the ground
• holding that “the Fourth Amendment . . . protects individuals from the use of excessive force during an arrest or investigatory stop”
• holding that an officer who threw a plaintiff to the ground despite the plaintiff cooperating with their orders did not foreclose the chance that the officer acted maliciously
• holding that an officer who threw a plaintiff to the ground despite the plaintiff cooperating with their orders did not foreclose the possibility that the officer acted maliciously
• recognizing that law enforcement officer is entitled to qualified immunity if a plaintiff cannot show either that his constitutional rights were violated or that the right was clearly established
• finding that \pulling compliant detainee out of car and throwing her to ground in process of handcuffing her is clearly established excessive force\

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