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Photo by Michael Pointner on Unsplash. https://www.coolmanlaw.com/openca/2024/8/5/how-much-force-can-be-used-to-remove-a-person-from-a-car monthly 0.5 2026-03-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5350adfce4b06ee47049c400/007c182a-8fad-45f4-97f4-8a2f8acac34b/Police-Canine-at-Traffic-Stop.JPG Open CA - How Much Force Can Be Used to Remove a Person From a Car? - Make it stand out The Sharp End of the Stick: A San Diego Police canine officer prepares to use the dog against a driver who refuses to get out of a car. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5350adfce4b06ee47049c400/313fd02b-b2e8-459f-9899-ea7d6a55d465/UCDavis_pepperspray.jpg Open CA - How Much Force Can Be Used to Remove a Person From a Car? - Make it stand out Hot Ones: This 2011 use of pepper spray against merely passively noncompliant peaceful protestors at UC Davis during the Occupy Wall Street movement became famous because of the remarkably casual approach of the officer to the use of obviously excessive force. 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