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Pennsylvania Arrest for Videotaping Cops Denied Qualified Immunity
Loaded on Aug. 12, 2016
by Mark Wilson
Filed under:
Police Misconduct,
Retaliatory Searches,
Malicious Prosecution,
Police Searches,
Videotaping,
Stun Guns/Tasers,
False Arrest,
Excessive Force (Police).
Location:
Pennsylvania.
A Pennsylvania federal court held that police were not entitled to qualified immunity for "entering a family's home and arresting its owner for doing nothing more than attempting to videotape the officers' overreaction on her own property."
Kia Gaymon, 38, and her husband Michael Gaymon, 35, own a …
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