Xing Qian v. James R. Kautz, as the Chief of Police of the Long Beach Police Department

U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit · Decided 1999-03-16

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DIANE P. WOOD, Circuit Judge. When the events leading to this lawsuit began to unfold, ambiguous behavior combined with a severe language barrier led to the arrest of Xing Qian. At a critical point, however, the police concluded that Qian (whose lawyer identifies this as his surname) could be released. Because he did not want to pay for a hotel room, they then re-arrested him,…

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