Racial Profiling Civil Rights Comlaint Filed

A racial profiling civil rights action was filed in the United States District Court of the Northern District of West Virginia on August 31, 2011 on behalf of two plaintiffs who alleged that they were unlawfully arrested without probable cause by police officers employed by the Charles Town West Virginia police department. The two men were handcuffed and transported to the Charles Town police department for interrogation by police officers investigating the alleged passing of bad checks at the Bank of Charles Town by black male.  After being held by the police for two hours, plaintiffs were told they were not under arrest and were released after they agreed to submit to photographing and finger printing.  Plaintiffs' allege that the sole reason they were arrested was because they were black and were in the vicinity of the Bank of Charles Town at the time of the arrest of the unrelated black male for passing bad checks. A copy of the Complaint filed in federal court can be found in the Articles section of the website.