First Circuit· 5/3/2005

Torres-Rivera v. O'Neill-Cancel

Citations

406 F.3d 43
2005 U.S. App. LEXIS 7601
2005 WL 1022059

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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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Judges: Torruella, Selya, Lynch

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