WILKINS v. CITY OF TULSA, OKLAHOMA

No. 21-5052.

33 F.4th 1265 (2022)

Ira Lee WILKINS, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. CITY OF TULSA, OKLAHOMA; Officer Will Mortenson; Officer Angela Emberton; Officer Edel Rangel, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

FILED May 3, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Blakemore ( Daniel Smolen with him on the briefs) Smolen & Roytman, Tulsa, Oklahoma, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

T. Michelle McGrew ( Kristina L. Gray with her on the brief) City of Tulsa, Tulsa, Oklahoma for Defendants-Appellees.

Before MATHESON, EBEL, and BACHARACH, Circuit Judges.


Three Tulsa police officers, dispatched late at night to a parking lot, found Ira Lee Wilkins asleep in the driver's seat of a running vehicle. They smelled alcohol on his person, ordered him out of his car, and eventually forced him to the ground, where they pepper sprayed him.

Mr. Wilkins sued the officers under...

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