with Officer Blanco's blows. Whereas Officer Blanco tried not to hurt Mr. Gomez when punching him [D.E. 189-12 at 8], Officer Lozano hit Mr. Gomez as hard as he could. 7 . Eleventh Circuit precedent supports this statement. No Eleventh Circuit opinion has denied qualified immunity for use of disproportionate force in a case where a suspect continuously "resists” arrest. To the contrary, the Eleventh Circuit has found force to exceed the hazy border as "disproportionate” where the suspect offered no resistance but was nonetheless hit, where the suspect stopped resisting and the police continued attacking for a prolonged period, or where the suspect merely verbally abused the police officer and the officer used force. See, e.g., Galvez v. Bruce, 552 F.3d 1238, 1243 (11th Cir.2008) (<HOLDING>); Reese v. Herbert, 527 F.3d 1253, 1274 (11th
holding no qualified immunity for disproportionate and unnecessary force used on handcuffed and compliant suspect holding that where defendant claiming qualified immunity relies on facts that are in dispute qualified immunity cannot be granted holding that a showup identification was valid even though the suspect was handcuffed holding that defendants are not entitled to qualified immunity holding that a military police officer was entitled to qualified immunity from an excessive force suit when he objectively reasonably believed that he used reasonable force