SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A federal court in California declined to dismiss a married couple’s Monell claim against the city of Vallejo after police violently pulled the wife from a car and slammed the husband’s face into the concrete before arresting them on charges of resisting arrest. They had been sleeping in the back of a car when the driver had a minor accident and police were summoned to the scene. Officers in the city have conducted multiple incidents of misconduct, so the couple has plausibly shown there is an unconstitutional custom of misconduct and failure to discipline or retrain officers there.
Read the ruling here.
Read about other incidents of police misconduct in Vallejo **here and here.
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