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He was just trying to say that he was “Number One in the nation.”
Reasonable people do not commit battery in response to being given "the finger".
Just because you can do a thing doesn’t mean you should do it.
The law books are filled with cases of people who were sanctioned for disrespecting police and the courts. People write obscene statements on checks written to pay tickets, or mouth off to cops, and they get an extra charge. And the additional sanctions have been routinely upheld.
While his choice of communicating his displeasure to the office is not something I condone, I do support his 1st Amendment rights to communicate his displeasure and the Officer in question should be punished and the ticket rescinded.
He was just showing the Trooper that he was Number ONE!...............
So basically the reasonable trooper was saying that if he wasn’t already pulling some one else over, he would pull this guy over and commit reasonable battery upon him?
Got to love the whole cop, gun, and badge power trip.
Really? You want a guy’s business to suffer after he was rude to a cop after the cop allegedly cut him off in traffic? Aren’t you just special.
Thanks for the extra information. The man was disturbing the cop’s peace. For making the obscene gesture at another human being, the nasty, little hippie should have had his teeth knocked down his throat. It’s time to bring back some of the better old laws.
In the 1968 presidential campaign,
Some guy flipped off Spiro Agnew.
He instructed his secret service detail to have him arrested.
Thr guy appealed this all the way to the supremes and they ruled that flipping off Spiro was protected free speech.
Just saying.
If you flip off another adult it is legal.
Flip off bussload of underage school kids and that may be a different story.
“Indiana wants me, Lord I can’t go back there.”
this is like the USSC case with the jacket that said f- the draft.
Well we certainly are glad that Police Master Trooper Matt Ames was not triggered to the point of having to draw his weapon and defend himself against the opinion of one the citizens he has sworn to protect.
If really serious and cryptic one can alway hold thumb with little finger (or vice versa), tuck middle finger down and tell someone to ‘read between the lines’.
However, the one fingered Hawaiian Good Luck sign is more effective.
If you have the time, just run your fingers under your chin and whatever ‘comes out from under first’ must be adhered to
Cops are out of control. They either don’t know the Constitution or they don’t care. And, of course, they believe they’re above the law. Comey is indicative of all cops. Starting at the top all the way down to the patrolman. They believe they ARE the law.
Disagree.
Flipping off a government official may be RUDE but it does not rise to the level of citation/fine.
The “you don’t have a right not to be offended” statement applies to cops as much as liberal snowflakes.
Stupid act - what they should do is get the plate info and put the person’s name in a database of those who aren’t worth the cops’ time and effort if they ever need assistance...
https://www.mediaite.com/online/federal-court-rules-youre-allowed-to-flip-off-the-police/
seems courts have been consistent in this....social finger is protected...