Westfahl v. District of Columbia

How courts have described this case

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• observing that while the suggestion of better investigations and more stringent discipline would discourage officers from using excessive force, a \more lax discipline system does not demonstrate that MPD's practices were ' the moving force' behind this specific incident\
• denying summary judgment for defendants on plaintiffs First Amendment retaliation claim because jury could find absence of probable cause and that plaintiffs “participation in [a] protest may have motivated his arrest”
• officer’s use of baton on arrestee was not excessive force where arrestee was struggling with another officer in an “uncontrolled manner”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).