072705P.pdf   03/13/2009  Alfred Flowers  v.  City of Minneapolis
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  07-2705
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Bye and Smith, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Civil rights. For the court's previous opinion in the case,
   see Flowers v. City of Minneapolis, 478 F.3d 869 (8th Cir. 2007). Plaintiff
   failed to show that he was targeted for police surveillance and harassment
   on the basis of his race; while a police officer's investigative decisions
   remain subject to traditional class-based equal protection analysis, they
   may be not be attacked in a class-of-one equal protection claim; plaintiff
   failed to present sufficient evidence that he was harassed because of his
   decision to plead not guilty in a previous criminal matter; because
   plaintiff cannot establish that an individual officer violated the
   Constitution, the district court correctly dismissed his claim against the
   City for allegedly maintaining an unconstitutional custom or policy; grant
   of summary judgment in favor of defendant officer on plaintiff's
   defamation claim affirmed.