Yesterday, on behalf of our client George Thompson, we filed a civil rights lawsuit against Fall River police officer Thomas Barboza, alleging that Barboza falsely arrested Mr. Thompson for exercising his First Amendment right to record the officer in public.
Read about this case in the Bay State Examiner and watch Channel 12’s news story:
Recording the police is a critical, well-established First Amendment right. Our firm represented Simon Glik in the landmark 2011 lawsuit Glik v. Cunniffe, in which the federal appeals court in Boston affirmed that recording the police in a public space is protected by the First Amendment.