In Baker v. Monroe Township, 50 F.3d 1186 (3d Cir. 1995), police officers detained four persons, two of whom were minors, who were approaching a house that was the subject of a drug raid. The officers ordered the four down on the ground, handcuffed them, and held them at gunpoint. The Third Circuit held their continued detention at gunpoint to be unreasonable; the four persons had not attempted to resist or interfere, and there was "simply no evidence of anything that should have caused the officers to use the kind of force they are alleged to have used." Id. at 1193. The Court found that officers had used excessive force where they handcuffed several members of a family and continued to point guns at them where there was "simply no evidence of anything that should have caused the officers to use the kind of force they are alleged to have used." Id. at 1193. In reaching this conclusion, the Court noted that "the appearances were those of a family paying a social visit." Id.