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GORMAN v. BARTCH

No. 96-2564.

123 F.3d 1126 (1997)

Jeffrey GORMAN, Appellant, v. Floyd BARTCH, Chief, Kansas City Missouri, Police Department; Steven Bishop, Former Chief, Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department; and Emanuel Cleaver II, John Dillingham, Jack Headley, Jacqueline L. Paul, Bailus Tate, Dona Boley, Neil Becker, Dr. Stacey Daniels, and James F. Ralls, Jr., Appellees. United States of America, Amicus Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided September 4, 1997.

MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge.

In 1992, the Kansas City, Missouri, police arrested Jeffrey Gorman for trespassing in a bar. Mr. Gorman is a paraplegic who is wheelchair-bound. A police van arrived to transport Mr. Gorman, and two officers lifted him from his wheelchair onto a bench inside the van. One of the officers used Mr. Gorman's belt to tie him to a mesh panel behind the bench. During the trip to the police station, Mr. Gorman fell from the bench and...

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