THOMPSON, v. LOS ANGELES
Where plaintiff sued police officers for injuries sustained when officers used police dog to find plaintiff who was injured by dog and by officers when they were trying to stop plaintiff from fighting with dog. Trial court correctly refused to instruct jury on definition of deadly force, instead instructing jury on definition of unreasonable force. Trial court did not abuse its discretion in excluding general report made by retired judge on procedures involving excessive use of force as hearsay and excluding police summaries regarding injuries caused by police dogs as hearsay and because their probative value was outweighed by their prejudicial effect. Cause of action alleging liability under Civil Code Sec. 52.1(b) was properly dismissed where plaintiff had not alleged that sheriff's department's excessive force policies were motivated by a discriminatory animus.
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