An Austin federal judge has ruled that an amateur photographer can pursue a civil rights case against four police officers after they detained and handcuffed him for filming the Round Rock Police Department building.
The background to the recent decision in Turner v. City of Round Rock is as follows. Phillip Turner sued the officers and the City of Round Rock in a U.S. District Court last year under U.S.C. § 1983, alleging the defendants deprived him of his rights under the First, Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
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