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Where a plaintiff police officer has brought suit alleging that the defendants violated his First Amendment rights by demoting him in retaliation for reporting drug use by his colleagues, that count must be dismissed because the plaintiff was speaking pursuant to his official duties instead of as a citizen. “Joseph A. Jakuttis, a quondam member