Thornton v. City of Rapid City

How courts have described this case

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• declining to find qualified immunity as a matter of law when the facts viewed in plaintiff’s favor established that officers “violently tackl[ed] the walking man from behind without warning”
• “Lack of a body of case law on the specific circumstances does not automatically entitle an officer to qualified immunity.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).