Edmund Junior Hargrave, Plaintiff-appellant, v. Paul A. Witt; John H. Bandy, Iii, Defendants-appellees,andrichmond City Bureau of Police, Defendant, 972 F.2d 339 (4th Cir. 1992)

OPINION

Edmund Junior Hargrave appeals from a district court order that dismissed the City of Richmond Police Department as a party and a jury verdict in favor of the Defendant police officers in his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 (1988) action in which he alleged that the officers used excessive force in his arrest. Since Hargrave does not allege that he suffered harm pursuant to execution of government policy or custom and since respondeat superior is generally inapplicable to § 1983 suits, we affirm the court's dismissal of the police department. See Monell v. Department of Social Servs., 436 U.S. 658, 694 (1978). We see nothing to indicate that the jury verdict is not sufficiently supported. There are no issues meriting reversal. Therefore, we affirm the judgment entered pursuant to the jury verdict. We dispense with oral argument because the facts and legal contentions are adequately presented in the materials before the Court and argument would not aid the decisional process.

AFFIRMED