The following excerpt is from Lyall v. City of L. A., 807 F.3d 1178 (9th Cir. 2015):
We therefore agree with the district court that the defendants in this case were not required to have individualized suspicion with respect to each plaintiff in order to have reasonable suspicion to search and detain them. To be sure, the fact that the officers did not see specific plaintiffs with weapons or engaging in violent behavior, and that many of the plaintiffs did not match the police call's description of the suspects as "male Hispanic juveniles," bore on the question whether the searches and seizures were reasonable. Standing alone, however, the officers' lack of individualized suspicion did not make the searches and seizures unlawful.
Ybarra v. Illinois, 444 U.S. 85, 100 S.Ct. 338, 62 L.Ed.2d 238 (1979), is not to the
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