In re Aaron C. CA1/5

I. BACKGROUND3

At approximately 6:50 p.m. on October 12, 2014, Pittsburg police officers, Sankara Dumpa and Angelica Valles, observed Aaron leaning against a fence along a sidewalk on Crestview Drive, a residential street in Pittsburg. Dumpa described it as a “high crime area” with “multiple shootings, drug transactions.” Aaron was wearing a dark hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled over his head. Dumpa believed Aaron’s attire, baggy clothing and a hooded sweatshirt, was unusual because it had been a warm day. Aaron was alone, but another male was walking toward him. When Dumpa stopped at the intersection of Crestview and Olympia Drives, Aaron and the other individual looked at the patrol car and turned around to walk north on Crestview. The officers made a U-turn to drive back to the two individuals “[j]ust to find out who they are, if they lived in the neighborhood. [Dumpa had] never seen them in the area before.” Dumpa, who was in uniform, parked the police car along the curb approximately 15 yards north of where Aaron and the other male were walking. Dumpa got out of the police car and stood by the driver’s side door, waiting for Aaron and his companion to approach the…