J. O’BRIEN, Circuit Judge, dissenting. The majority announces a very general rule — troopers may not subject a detained person to prolonged force beyond that necessary to restrain him if a reasonable trooper would have known the applied force presented a significant danger of asphyxiation and death. It sounds remark *1156 ably like generic tort law — “…
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