Martin

I. Background

A. The Shooting On November 4, 2017, Bakersfield Police Department officers stopped a car that they believed was carrying Augustus Joshua Crawford, a suspect in a shooting that had taken place earlier that evening. (Docket Entry No. 110 at 16). The car came to a “slow roll” without fully stopping. (Id.). Mr. Crawford jumped out from the passenger door side and ran toward a nearby apartment complex. (Id.). Officer Warren Martin got out of the patrol vehicle to begin chasing Mr. Crawford, but his partner, Officer Adam Garcia, told him to get back into the vehicle. (Id.). Officers Martin and

Garcia then pursued Mr. Crawford in their vehicle, following him into the apartment complex parking lot. (Id.). They found him standing on a dumpster. (Id. at 10, 38). When the officers got within 12 feet of Mr. Crawford, they got out of the vehicle and yelled “stop—police!” (Id. at 10, 16). Mr. Crawford then jumped over a 6-foot concrete wall separating the parking lot from a dirt field. (Id. at 10, 16). Officer Garcia yelled “Oh shit, shoot him!,” and also jumped over the wall. (Id. at 38). Mr. Crawford ran through the dirt field away from Officer Garcia,…