The following excerpt is from United States v. Job, 871 F.3d 852 (9th Cir. 2017):
United States v. Crapser , 472 F.3d 1141, 1147 (9th Cir. 2007). After stopping an individual based on reasonable suspicion, an officer may also conduct a limited pat down, or frisk, if he believes that "the individual whose suspicious behavior he is investigating at close range is armed and presently dangerous." Minnesota v. Dickerson , 508 U.S. 366, 373, 113 S.Ct. 2130, 124 L.Ed.2d 334 (1993) ; see also United States v. Thomas , 863 F.2d 622, 628 (9th Cir. 1988).
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