ROCHESTER (AP) -- Prosecutors have dismissed a criminal charge against an upstate New York woman arrested in her front yard while videotaping police making a traffic stop.
Supporters of Emily Good maintained that the 28-year-old civil rights activist was arrested without legal cause outside her home in Rochester last month.
Monroe County prosecutor Sandra Doorley told local media that her office agreed to the dismissal of the charge Monday because Good's actions did not meet the needed elements of the crime.
She had been charged with obstructing governmental administration, a misdemeanor.
In her widely disseminated video, an officer tells Good that the officers don't feel safe with her standing behind them while they're making an arrest. She counters that she is only standing in her front yard and is not threatening anyone.
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