Legal Opinion

Smith v. City of Joliet

District Court, N.D. Illinois

Decided February 5, 1991No. 89 C 6246PublishedCited by 1 opinion

1Opinion of the Court

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

NORDBERG, District Judge.

August Smith brought this Section 1983 action against the City of Joliet for damages arising from an incident on February 21, 1986. On that day, according to Smith, two Joliet police officers detained him with unnecessary and excessive force, causing mental and physical injury. Smith has forgone suit against the officers themselves, instead suing the City for “engagpng] in a pattern of knowing and deliberate indifference to the use of excessive and unnecessary force in the arrest and detention of black persons and other persons who were of…

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