Two Middletown police officers cannot claim qualified immunity in an excessive-force case filed against them over a 2012 incident involving a homeless woman, a U.S. District Court judge has ruled.

Judge Janet Bond Arterton, in a May 5 decision denying a motion for summary judgment, also found that a reasonable jury could find that the officers’ conduct constituted excessive force.

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