clear’ that every ‘reasonable official would have understood that what he is doing violates that right.’ [It is not necessary to point to] a case directly on point, but existing precedent must have placed the statutory or constitutional question beyond debate.” Ashcroft v. al-Kidd, — U.S. —, 131 S.Ct. 2074, 2078, 179 L.Ed.2d 1149 (2011). The fact that district courts within the same district in the Eleventh Circuit seem to come out differently on the present issue shows that the issue is by no means “beyond debate.” Compare Lewis v. Blue, 2010 WL 730210, at *6 (M.D.Ala. Mar. 3, 2010) (“case law seems to indicate that failure to intervene claims are cognizable only when related to excessive force violations”) with Sims ex rel. Sims v. Forehand, 112 F.Supp.2d 1260, 1274 (M.D.Ala.2000) (<HOLDING>). Even assuming that law enforcement officers
holding that while case law generally indicates that an officer can be held liable for failing to intervene in another officers use of excessive force the absence of authority from the supreme court or the eleventh circuit dealing with similar circumstances supported granting qualified immunity to a defendant holding that it was clearly established that a strip search policy applied to minor offense detainees without particularized reasonable suspicion was unlawful holding that an officers noncompliance with the strip search statute was not a defense to resisting an officer with violence holding that an officer who knowingly processed an invalid warrant could be held liable for the subsequent unlawful arrest holding that an officer could be held liable for failing to intervene in preventing an unlawful strip search