October 26, 2026
A Bojangles worker cannot prove the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, caused two police officers to roughly arrest him through bad training, the municipality told a federal court on Monday, arguing it warns officers that sight and smell alone aren't enough to establish whether a person is using illicit marijuana.
July 28, 2026
A man arrested in 2023 after smoking a legal hemp cigarette is suing the city of Charlotte, North Carolina, and two of its police officers, saying the city had made the officers aware that they couldn't distinguish between cannabis and hemp by smell, but they still arrested him and a companion anyway.