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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Peterson grants the police officers and dispatchers' motion for summary judgment in the citizen's pro se lawsuit claiming he was blocked from filing a complaint against one of the officers, who the citizen also claims insulted him and called him racial slurs along with another officer when they were sent out to field his complaint. Because the weight of the audio and video evidence contradict the citizen's suggestion that he was unlawfully blocked from filing his complaint through the normal process, or that any of his constitutional rights were violated at any point, his First Amendment, Fourth Amendment and 14th Amendment claims all fail and his motion for summary judgment is denied. The citizen's case is dismissed on the merits, and because he repeatedly engaged in misconduct such as clearly fabricating allegations of race-based discrimination, the citizen is sanctioned, in part, by being blocked for two years from filing any civil lawsuit except habeas corpus petitions without prepaying the filing fee.