211524P.pdf   07/27/2022  Alicia Street  v.  Gerald Leyshock
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-1524
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Before Colloton, Author, and Kelly and Kobes, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. For two other appeals involving the St. Louis 
   police response to protest activity on September 17, 2017, see Faulk v. 
   City of St. Louis, 30 F.4th 739 (8th Cir. 2022) and Baude v. Leyshock, 23 
   F.4th 1065 (8th Cir. 2022). Plaintiffs contended that the defendants - six 
   supervisory officers - caused them to be arrested without probable cause, 
   and the officers moved for summary judgment based on qualified immunity. 
   The district court denied the motion, and the officers appeal. This case 
   involves the same set of facts presented in Baude, and that case precludes 
   a grant of qualified immunity on the arrest claims in this case; with 
   respect to plaintiffs' excessive force claims, the allegations in the case 
   are insufficient to establish a probable claim that the defendant officers 
   violated any plaintiff's clearly established right against the use of 
   excessive force, and the officers were entitled to qualified immunity on 
   these claims; the officers were also entitled to qualified immunity on 
   plaintiffs' claims for conspiracy to deprive them of their civil rights as 
   the law is not clearly established such that reasonable officers would 
   have known with any certainty that the alleged agreements were forbidden 
   by law. Judge Kelly, concurring in part and dissenting in part.