context: First, as we explain below, a fact question remains as to whether there was sufficient probable cause to arrest Blondin for obstruction. Even if he committed a crime, though, that crime--failing to immediately comply with an officer order to get back from the scene of an arrest, when he was already standing thirty-seven feet away--was far from severe.
citation_a.signal: see
citation_a.identifier: 478 F.3d 1048, 1055
citation_a.parenthetical: trespassing and obstructing a police officer were not "serious offenses"
citation_a.sentence: See Davis v. City of Las Vegas, 478 F.3d 1048, 1055 (9th Cir.2007) (trespassing and obstructing a police officer were not “serious offenses”); see also Smith v. City of Hemet, 394 F.3d 689, 702 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc) (domestic violence suspect was not “particularly dangerous,” and his offense was not “especially egregious”).
citation_b.signal: see also
citation_b.identifier: 394 F.3d 689, 702
citation_b.parenthetical: domestic violence suspect was not "particularly dangerous," and his offense was not "especially egregious"
citation_b.sentence: See Davis v. City of Las Vegas, 478 F.3d 1048, 1055 (9th Cir.2007) (trespassing and obstructing a police officer were not “serious offenses”); see also Smith v. City of Hemet, 394 F.3d 689, 702 (9th Cir.2005) (en banc) (domestic violence suspect was not “particularly dangerous,” and his offense was not “especially egregious”).