The criminal charge filed against an Elmore County man days after he posted his encounter with Wetumpka police officers to YouTube was recently dropped.

An Elmore County grand jury didn't indict Lynwood Keith Golden, of Coosada, when it convened last week, court records show. Golden was charged with interference with public safety communications due to the "chaos" the police department claimed his video created.

"We are happy criminal charges are no longer lingering over his head," said Dustin Fowler, a civil rights attorney with Buntin, Etheredge & Fowler LLC in Dothan, who represented Golden.

Golden, who operates the YouTube channel Bama Camera, said he set up video cameras and filmed outside the Wetumpka Police Department headquarters on June 2, 2016 to exercise his First Amendment rights.

When officers approached Golden and asked why he was filming, Golden said he was a journalist working on a story. He declined to provide the officers identification.

"I don't care about your First Amendment rights," one officer, on the video, said. "I am asking why you are filming.

"I don't know if you are terrorist," another officer said.

Wetumpka police claim Golden's refusal to show his ID was "deemed suspicious," but after a "brief investigation, Mr. Golden was deemed to be no immediate threat and released at that time."

Golden was arrested five days later, on June 7 after, Wetumpka police say, the man's video created "chaos" and jammed the police department's phone system, according to a press release from the city of Wetumpka.

The police department received a barrage of "obscene, threatening and racially motivated" phone calls that crippled the phone system, the release stated. The response also forced the department to shut down its Facebook page.

For at least a week callers to the Wetumpka Police Department were greeted with the message: "Due to a technical difficulty, we can't accept your call at this time."

Wetumpka police claim Golden asked his followers "to begin mass communications" against the department.

"This sparks computer generated calling to the parties filmed in the videos, social media attacks on the municipalities involved, family members of officers and civilians, emails to the local governments and threats to the officer's lives," the city of Wetumpka stated in a release.

Wetumpka police say the large volume of calls jammed the department's phone system blocking their "ability to notify ambulance and fire service of emergency calls."

The police department also claims the city's emergency domestic violence shelter was forced to close because the department lacked manpower to properly manage the facility while assisting dispatchers in fielding the barrage of calls.

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