Sow v. Fortville Police Department

How courts have described this case

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• holding that, in an excessive force case, “the ‘reasonableness’ of the use of force is judged from the perspective of a reason- able officer on the scene”
• concluding municipal police departments in Indiana are not a suable entity
• affirming grant of summary judgment to defendant police officer on excessive force claim based on overly tight handcuffs where plaintiff complained once but presented no evidence that he elaborated on the pain to the defendant or required any medical treatment
• officer did not use excessive force where the officer pushed the plaintiff after he was arrested, causing him to bump his head on a squad car
• “the Indiana statutory scheme does not grant municipal police departments the capacity to sue or be sued.”
• \[T]he Indiana statutory scheme does not grant municipal police departments the capacity to sue or be sued.\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).