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SANTIAGO v. FENTON

No. 89-1108.

891 F.2d 373 (1989)

Hector SANTIAGO, Plaintiff, Appellant, v. Paul J. FENTON, etc., et al., Defendants, Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

Decided December 11, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth O'Connor Tomlinson and Charles J. DiMare, with whom Joan A. Antonino and Antonino & DiMare, Amherst, Mass., were on brief, for plaintiff, appellant.

Edward M. Pikula, Asst. City Sol., with whom Jane M. Payne, City Sol., was on brief, for defendants, appellees.

Before BREYER, Circuit Judge, COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge, FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.

COFFIN, Senior Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff Hector Santiago claims that the City of Springfield, Massachusetts, its police chief and three police officers violated his constitutional rights by forcibly arresting and repeatedly striking him after he threw a snowball that hit a police officer's unmarked car. Santiago brought a civil rights action alleging violations of 42 U.S.C. § 1983, Mass.Gen.L. ch. 12, § 11I, federal...

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