Legal Opinion
Fields v. City of Philadelphia
District Court, E.D. Pennsylvania
Decided February 19, 2016No. CIVIL ACTION NO: 14-4424, CIVIL ACTION NO: 14-5264PublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM
KEARNEY, DISTRICT JUDGE
In two incidents a year apart, Philadelphia police officers possibly violated the Fourth Amendment when encountering citizens either before or after the citizens captured police conduct on film. The citizens never told the police why they were capturing images of the police interacting with people they did not know. They were watching their police officers in action and wanted to capture the images because, at least for one of the citizens, “[i]t was an interesting scene. It would make a good picture” and for the other because she is a legal observer trained…
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3Cited by3 opinions
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