186 F.3d at 1079. I agree with the district court that the facts contained in the complaint and attached reports do not state a claim to relief under the Fourth Amendment against Chenow-eth. I also agree with the district court that West-Anderson failed to plead sufficient facts demonstrating that Argosy and Kirby acted jointly with public officers under color of state law. “Private parties are only liable under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 when they have been jointly engaged with public officers in the denial of civil rights.” Young v. Harrison, 284 F.3d 863, 870 (8th Cir.2002). West-Anderson alleges only that Kirby “instigated/started” the arrest, but we have held that a private actor “does not conspire with a state official merely by invoking an exercise of the state official’s authority.” Id. (<HOLDING>). We occasionally have found that a security
holding that a hotel security guard was not liable under  1983 merely because he called police and brought the police to the plaintiffs hotel room holding that a hotel occupant who was asked to leave by police officers acting on behalf of hotel management who complained of defendants disorderly behavior was justifiably ejected under state law and no longer had a reasonable expectation of privacy in the hotel room holding that the state failed to prove that a hotel visitor had control over marijuana found in plain view in a hotel room because the state did not provide any evidence other than the defendants mere proximity to the marijuana holding that a 7 excise tax based on the charge to the public for a hotel room applied to the price expedia demands from the consumer for the right to occupy the hotel room and not the price expedia agrees to pay the hotel for the room holding officer who was shot by employee of a hotel while he was attempting to make an arrest was unable to recover for injuries from hotel owner