Legal Opinion
Alanda Forrest v. Kevin Parry
Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
Decided July 10, 2019No. 16-4351PublishedCited by 569 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GREENAWAY, JR., Circuit Judge.
In Beck v. City of Pittsburgh , we were faced with what we deemed "a question of considerable interest in [a] period of alleged rising police brutality in major cities across the country"-what is sufficient evidence from which a jury can infer that a municipality adopted a custom of permitting its police officers to use excessive force? 89 F.3d 966 , 967 (3d Cir. 1996). More than two decades later, the interest and allegations persist, and, as it would appear, so does the question.
The evidence in this case demonstrates that the Internal Affairs Unit ("Internal…
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