Shelley v. County of Kershaw The parties’ arguments assume that the defendant-county’s detention center had a policy of non-intervention: detention center officers may not exit the intake area of the detention center and intervene in an altercation between a deputy sheriff and a detainee. However, there is no evidence that, prior to the handcuffed plaintiff’s beating by a deputy sheriff in the detention center’s sally port, there were any incidents of any unconstitutional use of force by sheriff’s deputies against arrestees in the sally port which would have resulted in notice to the county, prior to this incident, that a policy of non-interference would result in constitutional violations.
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