Uploaded April 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
“I was one man with a camera filming the precise actions of the police,” said Justin Pulliam, a citizen journalist who covers police activity and local politics.
“If the police have nothing to hide, it shouldn’t have been a big deal; however, they went to extreme lengths to stop my reporting.”
Now, Judge George Hanks of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas has ruled: “Pulliam’s arrest was motivated by Rollins’s hostility towards the content of Pulliam’s speech” and the arrest was in “retaliation for the exercise of his First Amendment rights of free speech as a citizen and journalist and to discourage this speech based on its content.”
Learn more about Justin's case here: ij.org/case/fort-bend-retaliation
“I was one man with a camera filming the precise actions of the police,” said Justin Pulliam, a citizen journalist who covers police activity and local politics.
“If the police have nothing to hide, it shouldn’t have been a big deal; however, they went to extreme lengths to stop my reporting.”
Now, Judge George Hanks of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas has ruled: “Pulliam’s arrest was motivated by Rollins’s hostility towards the content of Pulliam’s speech” and the arrest was in “retaliation for the exercise of his First Amendment rights of free speech as a citizen and journalist and to discourage this speech based on its content.”
Learn more about Justin's case here: ij.org/case/fort-bend-retaliation
