Bolden

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA San Francisco Division AMANI BOLDEN, Case No. 23-cv-03006-LB

Plaintiff,

ORDER GRANTING MOTION TO

v. DISMISS IN PART

RICHMOND POLICE DEPARTMENT, Re: ECF No. 5 Defendant. 16 INTRODUCTION The plaintiff, Amani Bolden, sued the Richmond Police Department for alleged civil-rights violations stemming from two incidents. First, in March 2022, an officer — responding to a tip that the plaintiff and his friend were waiving a gun in the plaintiff’s car — approached the plaintiff in his driveway and allegedly harassed him, used excessive force to restrain and search him, and searched his vehicle unreasonably. Second, in November 2022, the plaintiff asked the Richmond Police Department for assistance enforcing a protective order against a third party, Kathleen Lopez, and the department refused to assist and instead told the plaintiff that he would be arrested if he…