Legal Opinion
Shahryar Gilani v. John Matthews
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided December 8, 2016No. 16-1689PublishedCited by 20 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SHEPHERD, Circuit Judge.
Shahryar Gilani brought an action pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 1983 against Kansas City Police Department Officers John Matthews and Francis Collins, Police Chief Darryl Forte, and members of the Board of Police Commissioners of Kansas City, Missouri. Gilani contends Officers Matthews and Collins arrested him on account of his ethnicity, in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. He now appeals -the district court’s 1 grant of summary judgment to the defendants based on qualified immunity. We affirm,
I. Background
A. Facts
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