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This document summarizes a court case regarding a Baltimore police officer, Robert Berger, who performed musical acts in blackface makeup during his off-duty hours. The Baltimore police department told Berger he could not continue performing in blackface after the local NAACP chapter and others in the black community found it offensive. Berger sued the police department under the first amendment. The district court sided with the police department, applying the balancing test from prior Supreme Court cases.
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