A federal judge has dismissed a police officer’s defamation lawsuit filed against Philadelphia attorney Emily Baker-White and her nonprofit watchdog group the Plain View Project, which made national headlines last year when it publicized officers’ social media posts thought to be bigoted or violent.

U.S. District Judge Wendy Beetlestone of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania ruled that plaintiff D.F. Pace failed to show that the defendants exhibited reckless disregard for the truth when they published his reply to a potentially offensive Facebook post.

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