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Photographer Reaches $50K Settlement Over State Police Stop

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An Albuquerque photojournalist has reached a $50,000 settlement with the state years after a state police officer pulled him over while searching for a motorist suspected of wielding a firearm along a New Mexico freeway.

Albuquerque Journal photographer Adolphe Pierre-Louis had been handcuffed at gunpoint during the August 2011 stop.

The Journal reports that details of the settlement reached months ago were recently unsealed by a judge who ruled state police also must accommodate for Pierre-Louis to speak to cadets.

Pierre-Louis — who is 6-foot-2, African-American and now in his 50s — was pulled over and ordered to kneel while handcuffed on the pavement.

The suspect who had allegedly pointed a gun at another man was later described by the victim as a 5-foot-2 Hispanic man in his 20s.

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