Salem Fin., Inc. v. United States

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• concluding that “a reasonable officer would ordinarily inform a suspect . . . that he was being arrested” for a low-level crime, especially when “there was no reason not to tell him he was under arrest”
• finding use of pepper spray unreasonable where plaintiff “was not told that he was under arrest, … did not start the physical altercation, and … there was no reason not to tell him he was under arrest”
• finding the use of pepper spray unreasonable where plaintiff “was not told that he was under arrest, ... did not start the physical altercation, and ... there was no reason not to tell him he was under arrest”
• same where officers sprayed arrestee twice but did not inform him that he was under arrest or that he committed any crime, and did not warn him that they would use pepper spray
• multiple rounds of mace and baton strikes

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).