Flipping Off Police Officers Constitutional, Federal Court Affirms
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/01/03/flip-off-police_n_2403563.html?utm_hp_ref=fb&src=sp&comm_ref=false

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"WASHINGTON -- A police officer can't pull you over and arrest you just because you gave him the finger, a federal appeals court declared Thursday. In a 14-page opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit ruled that the "ancient gesture of insult is not the basis for a reasonable suspicion of a traffic violation or impending criminal activity." John Swartz and his wife Judy Mayton-Swartz had sued two police officers who arrested Swartz in May 2006 after he flipped off an officer who was using a radar device at an intersection in St. Johnsville, N.Y. Swartz was later charged with a violation of New York's disorderly conduct statute, but the charges were dismissed on speedy trial grounds. Richard Insogna, the officer who stopped Swartz and his wife when they arrived at their destination, claimed he pulled the couple over because he believed Swartz was "trying to get my attention for some reason." The appeals court didn't buy that explanation, ruling that the "nearly universal recognition that this gesture is an insult deprives such an interpretation of reasonableness.""

1/4/2013 1:01:43 PM

its still chicken shit

1/4/2013 1:10:00 PM

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"its still chicken shit"

yup.

also:

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"what finger? i didn't see a finger. i pulled you because you were speeding. also, your tire pressure is a little low. looks like two tickets for you today, sir!"

[Edited on January 4, 2013 at 1:46 PM. Reason : .]

1/4/2013 1:46:24 PM

^cops shouldn't be vindictive. they should just do their job, honestly.

1/4/2013 1:47:44 PM

flicking off a cop for no reason is asking for it. teenager shit itt

1/4/2013 1:50:10 PM

Yup

1/4/2013 1:53:25 PM

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"flicking off a cop for no reason is asking for it."

Maybe so, but a honest cop wouldn't use it as an excuse to give someone a ticket. We're paying them to do a job, they should do it honestly. It's just a finger.

1/4/2013 1:55:40 PM

fuck tha police

1/4/2013 1:55:54 PM

1/4/2013 2:13:43 PM

what about my friend that got pulled a few years ago because a cop stopped next to him at a light and he (in a blinding stroke of genius) decided to blast NWA's Fuck Tha Police out his open windows

got ticketed for "disturbing the peace"...on Western Blvd, at 2pm.

Stupid? Sure. Ticket-worthy? Hell no that's 1st amendment rape exhibit A

1/4/2013 6:16:55 PM

Your friend is stupid.

1/4/2013 6:25:49 PM

Stupid? Sure. Ticket-worthy? Hell no that's 1st amendment rape exhibit A 100%

No offense but blasting gangsta bullshit music in the car should be a capital offense especially at a red light.

1/4/2013 6:48:21 PM