Gabriel

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ADAM CHRISTIAN GABRIEL, Case No. 22-cv-00781-JD Plaintiff,

ORDER RE SUMMARY JUDGMENT

v. AND QUALIFIED IMMUNITY 10 COUNTY OF SONOMA, et al.,

Defendants.

13 On the night of June 2, 2021, defendant Deputy Shawn Forghani of the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Office was on patrol in response to a dispatch report of a carjacking in Santa Rosa. The suspect was described as an adult Hispanic male with a shaved head who was wearing a black baseball cap, a white hoodie, and jean shorts, and driving a green Subaru. Deputy Forghani saw a silver Subaru at a stop sign driven by plaintiff Adam Gabriel. Gabriel was a white male with a beard, and was wearing a blue cap and a green t-shirt. Deputy Forghani spotlighted Gabriel’s car and ordered him to put his hands up. Gabriel complied by turning off the car, throwing his keys to the pavement, and putting both hands in the air out of the driver’s-side window. Multiple police vehicles arrived,…