Police Avoid Liability to Drunk Dad Whose Daughter Called Them

A University of Wisconsin—Madison dad, whose daughter called the police when he got drunk after attending a football game and wouldn’t give her the keys to his truck, failed to convince the Seventh Circuit that the police who responded falsely arrested him or used excessive force.

Todd Cibulka got belligerent and the officers were trying to de-escalate the situation, the opinion by Judge Michael S. Kanne said.

Cibulka’s daughter, Emily, called the police because he and her mom, who was also drunk, wouldn’t let her drive home. She told him the officers were trying to help him but he wouldn’t ...