A Washington, D.C., resident who was briefly detained and handcuffed in D.C. last month for following an Ohio National Guard patrol while playing “The Imperial March” from Star Wars on his phone has filed a lawsuit saying his constitutional rights were violated.

The American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. filed the lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of Sam O’Hara against an Ohio National Guard sergeant, four D.C. police officers and the District of Columbia. The suit said they had infringed on O’Hara’s First Amendment rights and violated D.C. law when they detained him on Sept. 11 on a public street in Northwest Washington.

In its suit, the ACLU says that when O’Hara saw the National Guard members that day he began walking behind them play

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