Photog Abused Drugs and Has Bitter ex-Mother In Law? So What. Photography Still Isn’t a Crime

Photog Abused Drugs and Has Bitter ex-Mother In Law? So What. Photography Still Isn’t a Crime | PDNPulse

A federal court has smacked down attempts by the Baltimore City Police Department (BPD) to harass and intimidate a photographer who is suing the department. The photographer is suing over civil rights violations, because police stopped him for photographi

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Of the BPD request for the drug test results in particular, the judge wrote,  “Even if the hair follicle test indicated that there were drugs in the plaintiff’s system in 2007–some three years before the subject incident, the court fails to see the relevance [to the civil rights case at hand], but certainly sees that such a request could be viewed as an attempt to intimidate.”