Alaska Supreme Court April 15, 2011, S-13455 (Olson v. City of Hooper Bay)

OPINION

CHRISTEN, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Hooper Bay police responded to a request for a welfare check at the home of Thomas Olson, Suzanne Smith, and their young children. The officers found Olson asleep. When they woke him, Olson became belligerent and the officers placed him in handcuffs to escort him out of the building.