Hillel Neuer was arrested in the town center after calls to police that he'd been acting suspiciously and had a gun. Police had simultaneously been looking for a suspect in a beating death earlier that day.
"The man's behavior had aroused so much concern that employees and patrons had fled the premises," police said in a statement.
Neuer, who is the head of a Geneva-based human rights group, left the building following the instructions from police and a disorderly conduct charge against him was dismissed Monday.
"Investigators determined that reports of the presence of a gun had been made based upon an incorrect assumption that had been made by those observing Mr. Neuer and his behavior," police said.
A clerk magistrate in Dedham District Court dismissed the charge against Neuer after finding there was no probable cause.
A spokesman for the American Jewish Committee said Neuer is executive director of Geneva-based U.N. Watch and was in Boston to deliver a speech.
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