Deliberate Indifference

A man’s deliberate-indifference claim against a police officer who left him in an unventilated, hot van for two hours should not have been dismissed, the 11th Circuit ruled. The officer found the man unconscious, sweating and hyperventilating in the van, denied his request for water, and left the man in the van while driving him to the sheriff’s office.

ATLANTA — A man’s deliberate-indifference claim against a police officer who left him in an unventilated, hot van for two hours should not have been dismissed, the 11th Circuit ruled . The officer found the man unconscious, sweating and hyperventilating in the van, denied his request for water, and left the man in the van while driving him to the sheriff’s office.

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