Daniel Andrews v. City of Henderson
Opinion
Opinion
I. Background
A. Factual History
After a series of armed robberies at various businesses in Henderson, Nevada, detectives with the Henderson Police
1 Because this case comes to us on review of the district court’s ruling on Defendants’ motion for summary judgment, we view the facts in the light most favorable to Andrews. Rice v. Morehouse, 989 F.3d 1112, 1120 (9th Cir. 2021). But “[w]e do not credit a party’s version of events that the record, such as an unchallenged video recording of the incident, ‘quite clearly contradicts.’” Id. (quoting Scott v. County of San Bernardino, 903 F.3d 943, 952 (9th Cir. 2018)).
ANDREWS V. CITY OF HENDERSON
Department (HPD) began surveilling a woman suspected of assisting a man with a recent robbery. On January 3, 2017, the woman left a gas station in a car driven by an unidentified man, and several plainclothes detectives followed behind. The detectives learned from the lead detective on the case that the driver was Andrews and that they had probable cause to arrest him for the armed robberies. The detectives followed the pair to the Henderson Justice Facility parking lot and watched as they exited the vehicle.