Legal Opinion
Scott Lee Rudlaff v. Brandon Gillispie
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided July 1, 2015No. 14-1712PublishedCited by 193 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMcKEAGUE, J., joined by Mattice, D.J.,
DONALD, J. (pp. 644-48), delivered a separate opinion concurring in the judgment.
OPINION
McKEAGUE, Circuit Judge.
Two county police officers used force (one, a knee strike; the other, a taser) to subdue Lawrence Carpenter during his arrest. Their dash-cam videos show, and Carpenter admits, that he resisted arrest and refused to be handcuffed before the officers used force. When an arrestee actively resists arrest like Carpenter did, the police can constitutionally use a taser or a knee strike to subdue him. Because the officers did no more than that here, they acted within the bounds of the…
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