The following excerpt is from Turner v. Sacramento City Fire Dep't, No. 2:19-cv-0416 DB P (E.D. Cal. 2019):
Plaintiff names several individual defendantsalbeit not by name (e.g., "fire men")but he has not alleged any facts indicating that the individual defendants personally participated in the alleged deprivation of constitutional rights; knew of the violations and failed to act to prevent them; or promulgated or "implemented a policy so deficient that the policy 'itself is a repudiation of constitutional rights' and is 'the moving force of the constitutional violation.'" Hansen v. Black, 885 F.2d 642, 646 (9th Cir. 1989).
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