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213530P.pdf   01/06/2023  Derek Laney  v.  City of St. Louis, Missouri
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  21-3530
   U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri - St. Louis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Stras, Author, with Colloton and Wollman, Circuit Judges] 
   Civil case - Civil rights. Police officer's use of pepper spray against 
   plaintiff during a civil disturbance was a reasonable response under the 
   circumstances, and the district court did not err in granting the 
   defendant officer's motion for summary judgment based on qualified 
   immunity on plaintiff's Fourth Amendment claim; with respect to 
   plaintiff's First Amendment claim that the officer sprayed him in 
   retaliation for making complaints about the police officers' actions 
   during the demonstration, the officer was unaware of plaintiff's comments 
   and would have used the spray absent any retaliatory motive.