40 F.4th 895

Brown v. City of St. Louis, MO.

Submitted by Re'Neisha Stevenson on Tue, 01/24/2023 - 10:15

Officer entitled to qualified immunity on unlawful seizure, malicious prosecution and First Amendment retaliation claims, because objectively reasonable for officer to believe arrestee was inciting violence or intending to provoke others to violence when he laughed loudly before standing and getting “nose-to-nose” with another and yelling at rallygoers and Trump, despite fact he was acquitted in criminal case on ground he had not used “fighting words”.