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Photographer's Bullshit Arrest By A Dallas Transit Cop Nets Him A $345,000 Settlement

Photographer's Bullshit Arrest By A Dallas Transit Cop Nets Him A $345,000 Settlement

4 years ago
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https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20191114/10141243390/photographers-bullshit-arrest-dallas-transit-cop-nets-him-345000-settlement.shtml

Dallas residents are now going to be $345,000 lighter thanks to the actions of one Dallas Area Rapid Transit cop. (via Reason)

DART officer Stephanie Branch decided the law was on her side when she demanded photographer Avi Adelman stop recording EMS personnel dealing with an apparent overdose. Officer Branch claimed Adelman's photography violated the medical privacy rights of the person being attended to, saying things about HIPAA (not at all relevant here) and "establishing a perimeter." Branch was in the wrong. She was violating DART policy by shutting Adelman down and she compounded this error by making twenty-three "false or misleading" statements in her report of the arrest.