Torres-Rivera v. O'Neill-Cancel

How courts have described this case

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• denying qualified immunity to an officer for a failure to intervene to prevent excessive force
• guoting Gaudreault v. Municip. of Salem, 923 F.2d 203, 207 n.3 (1st Cir. 1990)
• \A law enforcement officer has an affirmative duty to intercede on the behalf of a citizen whose constitutional rights are being violated in his presence by other officers.\ (emphasis omitted) (quoting O'Neill v. Krzeminski , 839 F.2d 9 , 11 (2d Cir. 1988) )
• “A law enforcement officer has an affirmative duty to intercede on the behalf of a citizen whose constitutional rights are being violated in his presence by other officers.” (emphasis omitted) (quoting O’Neill v. Krzeminski, 839 F.2d 9, 11 (2d Cir. 1988))
• “[e]ven when the claim is that a state actor . . . causes the injury, that alone does not tell us enough to make dispositive judgments,” as “[t]here are a variety of state actors and a variety of settings within which they act”

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