A Virginia resident has taken legal action against a police department and a shopping mall, claiming his constitutional rights were violated when he was banned from the property for recording police officers. Kane Zoran Medic filed the complaint in the United States District Court for the Western District of North Carolina on November 10, 2025, naming the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department and Northlake Mall as defendants.
The case centers around an incident that occurred on June 9, 2023, at Northlake Mall in Charlotte, North Carolina. Medic alleges that while lawfully recording a conversation with officers from the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (CMPD) inside the mall—a public space—he was exercising his First Amendment right to record police officers performing their duties. According to Medic, CMPD Officer Michael W. Travis instructed him to stop recording and subsequently contacted mall security. The situation escalated when security personnel escorted Medic to his workplace within the mall, directed him to clock out, and issued a permanent trespass notice banning him from returning to the property.
Medic claims that despite being an employee who had not engaged in any unlawful conduct, he was threatened with arrest if he returned to the mall. He recorded a 47-second video of this interaction, which shows Officer Travis instructing him to cease recording and captures the subsequent involvement of mall security. This video is central to Medic’s case as it purportedly demonstrates his rights being infringed upon.
As a result of these actions, Medic lost his job as a manager at Go Green CBD—a store located inside Northlake Mall—where he had been employed since April 10, 2023. His termination led to lost wages and future earnings potential amounting to approximately $58,000 from June 2023 onward. Medic argues that the actions taken by both CMPD officers and mall security were retaliatory in nature due to his recording activities and constituted violations of his First Amendment rights as well as deprivation of liberty and property without due process under the Fourteenth Amendment.
In seeking justice through this lawsuit, Medic requests compensatory damages totaling $5,355 for actual lost wages along with $74,733 for lost future earnings. Additionally, he seeks declaratory relief stating that his constitutional rights were indeed violated by the defendants’ actions. The court is also asked to consider any further relief deemed appropriate.
Representing himself pro se in this matter is Kane Zoran Medic. The case is identified under Case No: 3:25-cv-00901-KDB-DCK and will be presided over by judges yet unnamed.
Source: 325cv00901_Medic_v_Charlotte_Mecklenburg_Police_Department_Complaint_Western_District_North_Carolina.pdf
