Estate of Jones by Jones v. City of Martinsburg
In 2013, it was already clearly established that suspects can be secured without handcuffs when they are pinned to the ground, and that such suspects cannot be subjected to further force.
In 2013, it was already clearly established that suspects can be secured without handcuffs when they are pinned to the ground, and that such suspects cannot be subjected to further force.
Clearly established that officers may not shoot a secured or incapacitated person”; “established that armed suspects can be secured even before an officer disarms them”; “simply being armed is insufficient to justify deadly force." Sok Kong Trustee for Map Kong v. City of Burnsville, 960 F.3d 985 (8th Cir. 2020) (officers entitled to qualified immunity where suspect was armed with knife and running towards bystanders in busy parking lot and ignored commands to drop knife, although suspect appeared to be under influence of drugs and did not threaten officers.