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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Wilson vacates the previous panel opinion and substitutes the instant opinion finding that the district court improperly ruled the police officers were entitled to qualified immunity from a mechanic’s false arrest claim in a civil rights action arising from his arrest while performing repairs on a client's car in a church parking lot. The mechanic was charged with obstructing government operations for initially refusing to produce ID when asked but the charges were later dropped. Video evidence shows that no reasonable officer could have believed the mechanic was using intimidation or physical force to intentionally obstruct the officer’s investigation. The statute does not require anyone to produce an ID. There was no arguable probable cause to support the arrest. Reversed.