Lynch Ex Rel. Lynch v. City of Mount Vernon

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• granting summary judgment in favor of defendants where tight handcuffs failed to cause persistent injury and plaintiff never sought medical treatment
• finding that it was reasonable for police officers to hold the plaintiffs, including children, “at gunpoint and handcuff[] the adult males” for approximately three hours “while searching the Residence for guns, drugs and a drug dealer”
• referring to the plaintiff’s “conclusory assertion that the [three-hour] search lasted an unreasonably long time” as “completely unpersuasive”
• collecting cases where courts in the Second Circuit have held “overly tight handcuffing” could constitute excessive force
• stating there is a consensus among courts in this circuit that tight handcuffing does not constitute excessive force unless it causes some injury beyond temporary discomfort
• confidential informant credible because he/she \provide[d] accurate information regarding drug activity at locations that the [police department] already had under investigation\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).