Two on qualified immunity

Officers arrived at the scene of a shooting and immediately called for EMS, and called twice more before they finally arrived. Plaintiffs’ quarrel was that they weren’t more emphatic about the degree of injury. “A reasonable officer in Piotrowski’s or Zayto’s position—a position that was, indisputably, a chaotic one—would not have known that his general calls for medical assistance for gunshot victims violated the Constitution.” Linden v. Piotrowski, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 17020 (6th Cir. September 24, 2015).*

Handcuffing of a shooting victim in response to a 911 call to clear the premises did not violate clearly established law. “Martin failed to demonstrate that Defendants violated clearly established law by restraining a noncompliant and apparently intoxicated individual for nine minutes in order to clear a scene where they reasonably believed that a shooting had recently occurred.” Martin v. County of Santa Fe, 2015 U.S. App. LEXIS 16779 (10th Cir. September 22, 2015).*