Youssef v. Gonzales

How courts have described this case

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• holding that defendant officers used reasonable force when they used pepper spray on the plaintiff and delivered “stun blows” to plaintiff’s head and knee to overcome his resistance
• affirming district court grant of summary judgment when police employed a “stun blow” to suspect’s head after initial pepper spray in the eyes did not allow officers to gain control over him
• use of officer’s right knee to deliver a “stun blow” to arrestee’s right thigh was objectively reasonable because it was proportional to the need for force in light of active resistance to arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).