Can a police officer use excessive force against a man who is either actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight?
MultiRegion, United States of America
The following excerpt is from Douglas v. City of N.Y., No. 17-1264 (2nd Cir. 2018):
actively resisting arrest or attempting to evade arrest by flight. . . . The calculus of reasonableness must embody allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second judgmentsin circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolvingabout the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation." Graham v. Connor, 490 U.S. 386, 396-97 (1989).
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