Knapps v. City of Oakland

How courts have described this case

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• determining former county 24 sheriff who retired sixteen years before testifying qualified as an excessive-force expert
• “The elements of a 16 section 52.1 excessive force claim are essentially identical to those of a § 1983 17 excessive force claim.”
• “The elements of a section 19 52.1 excessive force claim are essentially identical to those of a § 1983 excessive 20 force claim.”
• “The elements of a section 52.1 excessive force claim are 18 essentially identical to those of a § 1983 excessive force claim.”
• “A reasonable officer could not have reasonably but 1 mistakenly believed that he had no duty to intervene to stop another officer in their immediate 2 presence from inflicting excessive force on a subject when they could have prevented it.”
• “A reasonable officer could not 12 have reasonably but mistakenly believed that he had no duty to intervene to stop another 13 officer in their immediate presence from inflicting excessive force on a subject when they 14 could have prevented it.”

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