Matter of Meyerowitz

How courts have described this case

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• finding nature of threat did not support use of force because inmate was compliant, handcuffed, and no longer acting aggressively
• Officer had no subjective awareness of broken rib despite use of force; broken rib was not a visible injury that obviously required immediate medical attention
• qualified immunity unavailable where conduct so obviously violated the Constitution that no reasonable officer could believe it lawful

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).