JAMES DICKSON PHILLIPS, Circuit Judge: The issue is whether, consistently with the first amendment, the Baltimore Police Department could condition the continued employment of one of its police officers upon his cessation of off-duty public entertainment performances in blackface that members of Baltimore’s black community found offensive. In this action by the police officer against the Department under <span class="citat…
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