CONCORD — The Berlin police department and former officer Philip Pelletier are facing a civil suit over videos Pelletier took while supervising a local man who was being held at Androscoggin Valley Hospital under an involuntary emergency admission.

Filed in U.S. District Court, the suit charges the victim’s civil rights were violated by “private and humiliating” videos and photos that were taken and sent to multiple individuals without his permission. The suit alleges the defendants violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by failing to protect the man who had been deemed mentally and psychologically incapacitated and was under the guardianship of the Office of the Public Guardian.

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