Excessive Force

A federal court in California denied in part two San Francisco police officers’ motion for summary judgment in an excessive force case in which the officers used pepper spray and a baton and shot a mentally ill man on his front porch after he yelled and cursed at them to go away.

SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court in California denied in part two San Francisco police officers’ motion for summary judgment in an excessive force case in which the officers used pepper spray and a baton and shot a mentally ill man on his front porch after he yelled and cursed at them to go away.

Categories / Civil Rights, Government

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