Hanging a SUN Sentinel ID badge around your neck is NOT “just a plain old ordinary American exercising his right to free speech under the First Amendment.”
It is identification of official employment status and is a signal to anyone else that the wearer of this badge mystically has some sort of special privilege over an ordinary American citizen.
You can’t have your cake and eat it too. Pick one, pick the other, but don’t come on with this whining crap because they threw your ass out. They were smart to do it.
That was the problem. Media credentials and an unapproved journalist who thought their badge gave them special privledge and access no one else had! If you want to be an ordinary Joe, take off the badge.