WJLA Reporter Sues PG County

Channel 7/WJLA reporter Andrea McCarren has filed a lawsuit against Prince George’s County for “violating her constitutional rights.” McCarren was detained (left) and injured by Prince George’s County police officers in April 2005. She and a WJLA photographer had been investigating a story about alleged misuse of government resources. McCarren and her photographer were surrounded by nine county police cars and up to a dozen officers with weapons drawn. Her complaint alleged that officers held McCarren, who did not resist, at gunpoint while they forcibly restrained her arms.