MEMORANDUM
PRATTER, District Judge.
Officer Yolaina Washington-Pope's harrowing ordeal raises the question of whether an on-duty, in-uniform police officer, who raises his service weapon to his partner's temple as their exchange of words in their police cruiser rapidly escalates, acts under color of state law for purposes of 42 U.S.C. § 1983. Although the facts of this case and Ms. Washington-Pope's experiences are doubtlessly distressing, the...
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