From the DMN:
“Avi Adelman, a photojournalist and prominent Dallas blogger, is suing Dallas Area Rapid Transit and the transit agency police officer who arrested him as he took photos of paramedics responding to a medical emergency in a public plaza.
Adelman spent almost a day in jail in February after DART police Officer Stephanie Branch arrested him for criminal trespass as he photographed paramedics responding to a reported drug overdose in Rosa Parks Plaza downtown. The charges were dropped weeks later.
A subsequent DART police internal affairs investigation concluded that Adelman was within his rights to photograph the incident because he was not interfering, that Branch did not have probable cause to arrest him and that she also entered “false and improper information” in her report of the arrest.
A DART spokesman said the agency had not seen the lawsuit filed Thursday and could not comment. The internal affairs investigation sustained all six complaints against Branch stemming from Adelman’s arrest, but it has not been determined how she’ll be disciplined.”
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