What is the test for a jury to find that a reasonable person would have known that a man would be assaulted if he was walking with a member of another race?

MultiRegion, United States of America

The following excerpt is from Walker v. Cate, No. 2:11-cv-2728 GGH P (E.D. Cal. 2012):

cell with a member of another race let alone that he will be assaulted. See Farmer v. Brennan, 511 U.S. 825, 843, 114 S.Ct. 1970 (1994) ("It is not enough merely to find that a reasonable person would have known, or that the defendant should have known.").2

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