RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) -- A panel of Court of Appeals judges has reversed a ruling that advocated for the dismissal of charges against a Black Richmond man who said police discriminated against him when they initiated a traffic stop back in 2020.

The ruling, from the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, found Keith Rodney Moore was not discriminated against when Richmond Police officers initiated a traffic stop on the vehicle he was driving in December 2020, reversing a district judge's decision to dismiss his charges and instead telling the lower court to reinstate the indictment.

That traffic stop was due to the vehicle having a known fraudulent temporary tag, according to a police spokesperson at the time. Moore tried to flee the stop, but when officers found and detai

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