'Your papers, please' must never be heard in America
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A civil lawsuit that claims two Metropolitan Police Department officers illegally seized a man's camera phone this summer has prompted a criminal investigation of one of the officers by the U.S. attorney's office, according to recent court filings.
A pair of Metropolitan Police Department officers illegally seized a man's camera phone after the man photographed officers trying to intimidate witnesses of an arrest, the D.C. chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
The civil lawsuit also says that Officer Kenneth Dean, who was on the scene of the incident in Southeast Washington, incorrectly told Mr. Staley that it is illegal to photograph police and threatened to arrest him.
Officer Dean then incorrectly told Mr. Staley that it was illegal to photograph police and threatened to arrest him.
