holding that officers who entered a cell to bring a detainee who was behaving erratically to be medically assessed were entitled to qualified immunity when the officers placed their body weight on the detainee and tased him while he resisted and bit one of the officers
How later courts described this case
- holding that officers who entered a cell to bring a detainee who was behaving erratically to be medically assessed were entitled to qualified immunity when the officers placed their body weight on the detainee and tased him while he resisted and bit one of the officers
- finding that county jail officers violated this law “when they allowed [a pretrial detainee] to scream, howl, and bang against his cell door for eight hours without attempting to talk to him or seek medical intervention,” and the detainee died shortly thereafter
- concluding that the efforts made by officers to remove a severely mentally agitated detainee from his cell were objectively reasonable
- holding that officers placing body weight on the plaintiff and tasing the plaintiff twice in drive stun mode was objectively reasonable where the plaintiff was not complying with officers’ commands and continued to resist restraint
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
LOKEN, Circuit Judge,
concurring in part and dissenting in part.
I concur in Part II.B. of the court’s opinion. I respectfully dissent from Parts H.A., II.C., and III. In my view, the grant of summary judgment in favor of defendants Mary Armstrong and Patrick Cullo- *429 ton should be affirmed for the reasons stated by the district court in its Memorandum Opinion and Order dated January 5, 2016. I would therefore affirm the judgment of the district court.