S.Ct., 2021 WL 2637856

Lombardo v. City of St. Louis, Mo.

Submitted by Re'Neisha Stevenson on Wed, 10/26/2022 - 03:15

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