Salvador Flores v. City of Pasadena

I. BACKGROUND

3 On the evening of January 20, 2017, at approximately 9:15 p.m., Salvador Flores 4 (“Plaintiff”), Plaintiff’s girlfriend, Marissa Beltran (“Beltran”), and several friends, 5 including Giovani Rodriguez, Cruz, Jose Jimenez (“Jose”), and Jose’s wife, arrived at a 6 night club in Los Angeles. (Dkt. 56-1, Lee Decl., Ex. B, Flores Dep. at 57:24-25, 58:22, 7 59:23-25, 64:9-10.) At approximately 10:30 p.m., Plaintiff consumed one 12 oz. Corona 8 beer. (Id. at 67:7-12; Dkt. 59-7, Flores Decl. ¶ 2.) Plaintiff and his friends left the night 9 club between 1:30 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. on January 21, 2017. (Lee Decl., Ex. B, Flores Dep. at 70:16-23.) Plaintiff and his friends then went to a fast food restaurant where Plaintiff’s girlfriend, Beltran, received a phone call from her best friend “Samantha.” (Id. at 72:2-18, 73:1-8; Flores Decl. ¶ 4-5.) Samantha and Beltran then began to argue, in part, because Samantha was upset that Beltran “[hung] out with,” Samantha’s ex-boyfriend Jose, and because she was jealous of Plaintiff. (Lee Decl., Ex. B, Flores Dep. at 72-73; Flores Decl. ¶ 6.) After the phone call, Plaintiff, accompanied by…