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Tight Handcuffs, Exposure to Heat in Police Car Actionable

Loaded on May 15, 2007

Filed under: Conditions of Confinement, Exposure to Heat, Restraints, Excessive Force (Police). Location: Ohio.

At 944-45:
The right to be free from "excessively forceful handcuffing" is a clearly
established right for qualified immunity purposes, . . . and applying
handcuffs so tightly that the detainee's hands become numb and turn blue
certainly raises concerns of excessive force. Our precedents allow the
plaintiff to get …

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