The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit reversed a lower court’s dismissal of excessive force claims brought by an oil pipeline protester against Hubbard County Sheriff Cory Aukes and Chief Deputy Sheriff Scott Parks. Hubbard County Sheriff Cory Aukes Park Rapids Enterprise file photo, 2019Matthew Locke sued Aukes and Parks, alleging the officers violated his Fourth Amendment right to be free of excessive force during his arrest at an August 2021 protest. Pain compliance techniquesThe federal three-judge court accepted the facts alleged in Locke’s complaint as true. On Aug. 16, 2021, four protesters attached themselves to construction equipment at an Enbridge pipeline easement in Hubbard County. They also pointed out one Minnesota court dismissed a similar charge for lack of probable cause.