Kitchen Ex Rel. the Estate of Kitchen v. Dallas County

W. EUGENE DAVIS, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiff-Appellant, the widow of Gregory Maurice Kitchen (“the deceased”), brings several constitutional claims under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Defendants-Ap-pellees. First, Plaintiff-Appellant claims that individual Defendants-Appellees used excessive force against the deceased to extract him from his jail cell while in pretrial detention at Dallas County Jail, which resulted in the deceased’s asphyxiation and death. Second, Plaintiff-Appellant claims that Defendants-Appellees acted with deliberate indifference to the deceased’s medical needs by failing to…