Tasha Williamson v. City of National City

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

TASHA WILLIAMSON, an individual, No. 20-55966 Plaintiff-Appellee, D.C. No. v. 3:18-cv-02394-

WQH-JLB

CITY OF NATIONAL CITY; LUCKY

NGUYEN; JOHN MCGOUCH,

Defendants-Appellants. OPINION

Appeal from the United States District Court for the Southern District of California William Q. Hayes, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 10, 2021 Pasadena, California

Filed January 24, 2022

Before: Susan P. Graber, Consuelo M. Callahan, and Danielle J. Forrest, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Forrest SUMMARY *

Civil Rights

The panel reversed the district court’s denial of defendants’ summary judgment motion asserting qualified immunity in an action brought pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 and state law alleging that police officers used excessive force when they removed plaintiff from a city council meeting where she and others were protesting.

The protest prevented the city council meeting from continuing and police officers warned the protesters that they had to leave the meeting room or they would be arrested. The protesters refused to…