Where a defendant trooper was denied qualified immunity on an excessive force claim, that decision should be affirmed because (1) a jury could find that the defendant’s use of a straight-arm bar takedown maneuver was objectively unreasonable and (2) it should have been clear to the defendant that the plaintiff was neither actively resisting nor posing a significant safety risk to the troopers.
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