Sixth Circuit Rejects Immunity For Cop or City For Skull-Fracturing Takedown

Handcuffed detainee curses, pulls away from Saginaw, Mich. officer, who suplexes him headfirst into the ground, fracturing the detainee's skull. Sixth Circuit (unpublished): To trial this must go. No qualified immunity. No municipal immunity.

The case is Jorrell Lambert v. City of Saginaw, Mich., No. 24-1611 (6th Cir. 2025).