“A Galveston city police sergeant has been indicted by a grand jury on a misdemeanor criminal trespass charge arising from the search of a self-described video activist’s vehicle, according to prosecutors.

The Galveston County district attorney’s office alleges that Sgt. Archie Chapman “located, entered, and searched” the car of Phillip Turner, a correspondent for the website photographyisnotacrime.com who was observed filming near the police department in November.

THE ARREST: Man arrested after filming vehicles, law enforcement buildings

Chapman arrested Turner at the time on charges of failure to provide identification to officers, but the chargers were subsequently dropped, prosecutors said.

Chapman’s attorney, Greg Cagle, said his client was looking in Turner’s car for the man’s driver’s license to book him into jail after detaining him. Cagle said Chapman was worried about the safety of police officers, sheriff’s deputies and jail staff who worked in the nearby building.”

http://www.chron.com/neighborhood/bayarea/crime-courts/article/Galveston-police-Sgt-indicted-on-criminal-6826951.php?platform=hootsuite