{Huntington, West Virginia}...Joseph Pniewski of Huntington filed a lawsuit August 24th in federal court in Huntington, claiming three Huntington police officers unlawfully detained him, seized his video camera and deleted a recording of their search. Pniewski, a freelance investigative journalist, says his civil rights were violated when he tried to videotape a vehicle search on September 29, 2011 in a public alley near a low-income public housing complex. The lawsuit asks the court to order the city to establish new policies on citizens' First Amendment rights during encounters with officers and on the crime of obstruction.
