Sash v. United States

How courts have described this case

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• finding that “no reasonable jury could conclude that [the defendant] had a genuine opportunity to intercede” where the entire incident took less than thirty seconds
• finding that tackling and throwing the plaintiff up against a metal gate could be excessive force where the plaintiff had already arranged to voluntarily surrender
• explaining that Iqbal’s rejection of liability based on “a supervisor’s mere knowledge of his subordinate’s discriminatory purpose” applies to “intent-based constitutional claims . . . , specifically racial discrimination”
• finding that the officer’s failure to create an arrest report within twenty-four hours of the arrest, in contravention of Probation Department rules, did not bear on the alleged use of excessive force and, therefore, was insufficient to support a supervisory liability claim
• “Tackling an arrestee on the street and forcibly shoving him into a metal gate when he offers no resistance certainly could be actionable conduct.”
• “Tackling an arrestee on the street and forcibly shoving him into a metal gate when he offers no resistance certainly could be actionable conduct.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).