“Then make it a crime. Otherwise, as unpleasant as it may be, the officer had no choice but to put up with it. He had no reason to arrest her simply because she refused his order to put her cigarette out and gave him some lip.”
As I read the article, he arrested her for refusing his order to exit the vehicle.
If someone gives a cop some lip, it doesn’t bother me if the cop knocks the crap out of them.
And if the cop gives someone some lip should that person have the right to beat the crap out of the cop?