William J. Crosby v. Monroe County

How courts have described this case

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• holding that officers did not use unreasonable force when an officer stepped on a man’s face who resisted handcuffing
• holding that, because making an arrest is within the official responsibilities of a law enforcement officer, a law enforcement officer performs a discretionary function when making an arrest
• finding that “making an arrest is within the official responsibilities of [an officer],” and so the defend- ant-officer “was performing a discretionary function when he ar- rested [the plaintiff]”
• concluding officer’s use of force was not excessive where suspect, though lying face down on the ground, “was able to wrestle his hand loose and push [the officer’s] foot away”
• concluding officer’s use of force was not excessive where suspect, though lying face down on the ground, “was able to wrestle his hand loose and push [the officer’s] foot away”
• finding that the question whether a sheriff’s deputy was engaged in a discretionary function was an “easy” one “[b]ecause making an arrest is within the official responsibilities of a sheriff’s deputy”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).