Ronald Tibbs v. City of Chicago and Mark Kooistra

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• concluding that tight handcuffs did not constitute excessive force where plaintiff did not seek or receive medical care
• concluding that a plaintiff who simply complained the handcuffs were too tight did not have an excessive force claim
• holding that simply complaining of discomfort without further elaborating injury is not a sufficient excessive force claim
• concluding that tight handcuffs did not constitute excessive force where plaintiff complained of pain only once to officer and did not communicate his degree of pain
• concluding that tight handcuffs did not constitute excessive force where the plaintiff complained of pain only once to the officer and did not communicate the degree of pain
• holding that officers acted reasonably where “Tibbs complained only once … , gave the officers no indication of the degree of his pain [and], experi- enced minimal (if any) injury”

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