Affirming denial of summary judgment to officers who arrested and detained plaintiff’s decedent and failed to provide him with any medical attention despite patently visible blood and contusions and the detainee’s repeated complaints of head injuries, demonstrating their indifference by harassing and openly laughing at him.
Court grant cert and remands case for reconsideration of facts and circumstances that may have rendered force excessive; pretrial detainee who had apparently attempted suicide and then struggled with officers was placed in handcuffs and leg irons and placed in prone position, held face down on floor of cell with at least one officer applying pressure to his back for fifteen minutes until he stopped moving and lost a pulse; Supreme Court says unclear if Eighth Circuit would say prone restraint is not objectively unreasonable and per se constitutional when subject actively resists; Eighth Cir