Civil rights suit over filming Austin officers dismissed
A federal judge dismissed on Friday a local activist’s civil rights lawsuit against the Austin Police Department and several of its officers over his filming of police officers conducting arrests.
Antonio Buehler, the head of Peaceful Streets, filed the lawsuit in late 2013 accusing Austin police of violating his civil rights when they have arrested him, in several occassions, after filming officers during events he has described as police abuse. Buehler had sought an unspecified amount of damages in the suit.
Peaceful Streets Project is an organization that encourages bystanders to record officers if they see what they think is police abuse. Buehler created it after he was arrested in 2012 for filming an arrest in downtown Austin. A jury acquitted him of that charge in October.
He was arrested under similar circumstances in several occassions after that incident.
Read more: http://www.statesman.com/news/news/local/civil-rights-suit-over-filming-austin-officers-dis/nkGDb/
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