Paylor v. District of Columbia

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA SHADONIE PAYLOR, Plaintiff, v. Civil Action No. 22-3359 (JEB) DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION One afternoon in August 2019, Plaintiff Shadonie Paylor was waiting to pick up her children from school in her Southeast Washington neighborhood. She observed several officers of the Metropolitan Police Department conduct an arrest that soon snowballed into a larger confrontation. She filmed the incident and, after twice crossing the officers’ makeshift police line, she became their next target for arrest. Paylor…