Lyons

MEMORANDUM *

The claims at issue in this appeal 1 are viable only if the police lacked probable cause to arrest the plaintiffs. 2 “Probable *656 cause exists when ‘under the totality of the circumstances known to the arresting officers, a prudent person would have concluded that there was a fair probability’ that a crime was committed.” 3 The existence of probable cause is analyzed from the perspective of objectively reasonable officers 4 at “the time the arrest is made” 5 and is based on the “collective knowledge of police officers involved in the investigation,” 6 or, in this case, the “circumstances known to the arresting officer!] or within the knowledge of other officers at the scene! ]....” 7 Of course, the officers generally need “individualized suspicion of wrongdoing.”

The district court granted summary judgment to the defendants because it concluded that the police had probable cause to believe that the plaintiffs disobeyed at least one lawful order to disperse. 9 We review de novo and will affirm, if, taking all the facts and inferences therefrom in the light most favorable to the plaintiff, “the pleadings, depositions, answers to interrogatories, and admissions on…