181324P.pdf   06/13/2019  Gregory Clark  v.  Austin Clark
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  18-1324
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - Cape Girardeau   
   [PUBLISHED] [Erickson, Author, with Smith, Chief Judge, and Colloton, 
   Circuit Judge] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. Defendant police officer was entitled to 
   qualified immunity on claim that his actions during an initial encounter 
   with plaintiff violated plaintiff's civil rights; the encounter was 
   consensual and involved no coercion or restraint of liberty; even if the 
   encounter was not consensual, the defendant officer had reasonable and 
   articulable suspicion that warranted the intrusion; a second encounter, 
   where officers, with guns drawn, ordered defendant from his vehicle after 
   he stopped voluntarily, the defendant officer was entitled to qualified 
   immunity because plaintiff's seizure was supported by a reasonable and 
   articulable suspicion that criminal activity was afoot; under the 
   circumstances, pointing a firearm at plaintiff for a few seconds before 
   removing him from his vehicle did not constitute excessive force and 
   violate the Fourth Amendment; with respect to plaintiff's equal protection 
   claim, he has not provided sufficient evidence to raise a fact question as 
   to whether he was singled out for investigation based on his race; First 
   Amendment retaliation claim rejected. Chief Judge Smith, concurring.