Darby v. City of Torrance

The plaintiff, James Darby, filed a § 1983 complaint against the City of Torrance, some of its police officers and a local mall, after allegedly being physically abused by officers in a police substation in the mall. Darby alleged that when he did not vacate the mall quickly enough after the police had ordered him to do so, they pushed him into a door jamb, lifted him off the floor by the neck and struck him in the face with a forearm.