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164275P.pdf   08/28/2018  Levi Wilson  v.  Scott Lamp
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  16-4275
                          and No:  16-4337
   U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa - Sioux City   
[PUBLISHED] [Benton, Author, with Gruender, Circuit Judge, and Tunheim, District Judge] Civil case - Civil Rights. The police had reasonable suspicion to stop plaintiff's truck as the stop occurred at night and they could not tell if plaintiff's brother, a man sought on warrants, was driving or hiding in the truck; on the facts presented, a search of plaintiff was lawful; in making a decision as to whether an individual might be armed, the officers could take into account plaintiff's association with a suspect they believe is armed; here,the totality of the circumstances at the time officers conducted plaintiff's patdown made it reasonable for the officers to suspect that the brothers were in a common enterprise and that the brother might be hiding in plaintiff's truck with his help; protective sweep and search of the truck was supported by reasonable suspicion that the brother was hiding in it; on the facts here, officers action in continuously drawing and pointing of weapons at plaintiff and his minor companion constituted excessive force; plaintiffs' right to be free of this type of excessive force was clearly established at the time of the incident; order denying officers' motion for summary judgment based on qualified immunity on plaintiffs' claims of unreasonable search and seizure reversed, and that portion of the order denying the officer's motion regarding the excessive force claim is affirmed. Judge Tunheim, concurring in the result