Rogoz v. City of Hartford, No. 14-0876 (2d Cir. 2015)
Annotate this CasePlaintiff filed suit against the City, individual detectives and officers, and the City's Chief of Police, under 42 U.S.C. 1983, after plaintiff's rib was broken and his spine was broken in two places. The court concluded that the district court's summary judgment dismissal of the section 1983 claim against Detective Watson for use of excessive force was error because no officer in 2009 could reasonably have believed it permissible under the Fourth Amendment to jump on the back of a prone and compliant suspect gratuitously, with sufficient force to break his spine and rib. Accordingly, the court vacated to the extent that it dismissed plaintiff's section 1983 claim against Watson for the use of excessive force and his state-law claims related to the use of excessive force. The court affirmed in all other respects. The matter is remanded for further proceedings.
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