A civil rights lawyer in Mississippi was arrested after filming a traffic stop conducted by officers from a police department that she filed a federal lawsuit against, the Associated Press reports.

Jill Collen Jefferson, is president of JULIAN, a civil rights nonprofit that sued the Lexington Police Department on behalf of residents in the city. In the suit, Jefferson alleges that police have targeted Lexington residents “to false arrests, excessive force, and intimidation.”

Michael Carr, Jefferson’s lawyer, said his client was arrested on Saturday (June 10) for filming officers after they pulled a vehicle over.

“As an advocate for her clients, Jill Jefferson believes that this pattern and practice has happened to citizens in Lexington,” Carr said. “Through this experience, she is showing the state, the area, and possibly the nation the corrupt practices of this city.”

Carr also said that Jefferson was compliant when she was asked for her identification and she questioned the officers tactics as she began to film the incident. She was arrested and charged with failure to comply, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest. All are misdemeanors.

In a statement, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party condemned Jefferson’s arrest.

“The citizens of Lexington are fearful of driving for fear of harassment from the police,” the statement read. “Innocent mentally ill citizens are brutalized on our streets and imprisoned unlawfully. Our elected officials have refused to act on this matter because these unlawful arrests are benefitting the city financially.”

Jefferson is currently in the Holmes County Jail, where she was booked, awaiting a court hearing, which has not been scheduled

Although Lexington Police Chief Charles Henderson agreed to release Jefferson without posting a bond, she refuses to pay a $35 processing fee required by the jail because she maintains her innocence and claims that her arrest was “unlawful.”