{"id":63477,"date":"2026-03-06T09:41:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63477"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:41:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T14:41:26","slug":"ca8-crowd-dispersal-was-not-a-seizure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63477","title":{"rendered":"CA8: Crowd dispersal was not a seizure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police actions in dispersing a crowd were not a seizure, even using less than lethal force. <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.ca8.uscourts.gov\/opndir\/26\/03\/241375P.pdf\">Perkins v. City of Des Moines<\/a>, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 6528 (8th Cir. Mar. 5, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>CBP officer\u2019s conviction for excessive force on a detainee is affirmed. United States v. Delgado, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 6254 (5th Cir. Mar. 3, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn fact, in making this decision, the question is not whether Brown actually had probable cause, but only whether he arguably had probable cause. Galanakis v. City of Newton, Iowa, 134 F.4th 998, 1003 (8th Cir. 2025); Joseph v. Allen, 712 F.3d 1222, 1226 (8th Cir. 2013) (arguable probable cause exists even if officer mistakenly arrests a suspect, so long as the mistake is objectively reasonable). \u2026 It was objectively reasonable for Brown to believe that Nelson was the suspect driving away from the fight. Although unpleasant for Nelson, objectively reasonable mistakes of fact do not violate the Fourth Amendment. Heien v. North Carolina, 574 U.S. 54, 60 (2014).\u201d Nelson v. Brown, 2026 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 44284 (E.D. Ark. Mar. 2, 2026).*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police actions in dispersing a crowd were not a seizure, even using less than lethal force. Perkins v. City of Des Moines, 2026 U.S. App. LEXIS 6528 (8th Cir. Mar. 5, 2026).* CBP officer\u2019s conviction for excessive force on a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=63477\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,20,69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excessive-force","category-probable-cause","category-seizure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63478,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63477\/revisions\/63478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}