Civil Rights
Feb. 28, 2024
Qualified immunity partly applies in excessive force case
A jury must decide whether excessive force was used when two Antioch police officers allegedly knelt on the neck and back of a man they had arrested, a U.S. judge ruled.
A federal judge in San Francisco ruled that qualified immunity applied to most, but not all, of the claims against four Antioch police officers accused of using excessive force during a December 2020 arrest that resulted in death.
In her order this week granting partial summary judgment to the officers, US. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin paved the path to trial for the parties by ruling that qualified immunity only applied to the officers' actions in initially restraini...
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