CA11: Tasing grand mal seizure sufferer held down by four men was excessive on its face; no QI

The officer’s repeated Tasings of the teenager who was suffering a grand mal seizure amounted to excessive force. The district court properly denied qualified immunity, because the constitutional violation was clearly established based on both materially similar case law and the obvious clarity exception. The officer deployed his taser on her three times as she lay immobilized on the floor with at least four adult men holding her arms and legs while she suffered the seizure, she was not suspected of committing a crime, and she posed no threat to others. Helm v. Rainbow City, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 6929 (11th Cir. Mar. 10, 2021). See CNS: No Immunity for Alabama Cop Who Tased Girl in Throes of Seizure (“Five years deep into litigation, the 11th Circuit rejected an officer’s move to shield himself from liability for using his Taser on an incapacitated 17-year-old.”)

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