In Divided Opinion, 6th Circ. Rejects Michigan Officers' Qualified-Immunity Argument in Excessive Force Traffic Stop Case
The officers “appear[] to conflate ambiguity about the facts in this case for purposes of whether there is a genuine issue of material fact … with ambiguity from the officers’ perspective about what the victim [the man arrested] was up to” as they gave him orders during the traffic stop and then arrested him after pinning him to the ground, wrote the majority panel.