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CIOLINO v. GIKAS

No. 16-2107.

861 F.3d 296 (2017)

Alfonso CIOLINO, Plaintiff, Appellee, Cinsia Ciolino, Plaintiff, v. George GIKAS, Defendant, Appellant, David Earle; Aaron Eastman; Brian Crowley; Frank G. Cousins, Jr., Sheriff, Essex County; City of Gloucester, Commonwealth of Massachusetts; John Doe, Defendants.

United States Court of Appeals, First Circuit.

June 28, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen C. Pfaff , with whom Louison, Costello, Condon & Pfaff LLP, Boston, MA, was on brief, for appellant.

Robert S. Sinsheimer , with whom Wesley B. Stoker and Sinsheimer & Associates were on brief, for appellee.

Before Lynch, Kayatta, and Barron, Circuit Judges.

This excessive force case, brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, stems from an arrest on June 30, 2013. Defendant George Gikas, a police officer on crowd-control duty, grabbed plaintiff Alfonso Ciolino from behind by the collar and dragged him backward and downward to the pavement, after seeing Ciolino taunting K-9 dogs. The...

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