flipping off cops is constitutional right, rules federal court

[Julius Skrrvin]

:nard:

Flipping Off Police Officers Constitutional, Federal Court Affirms

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.

A federal judge in the Northern District of New York granted summary judgement to the officers in July 2011, but the Court of Appeals on Thursday erased that decision and ordered the lower court to take up the case again.

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."

 

[daze23]

forgive me if I'm not in a hurry to test this one out

:obamafu:

 

[88m3]

forgive me if I'm not in a hurry to test this one out

:obamafu:

Yep

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

forgive me if I'm not in a hurry to test this one out

:obamafu:

lemme print out all 14 pages of this court ruling, bring it with me, and flick off a cop :nard:

 

[The Real]

lemme print out all 14 pages of this court ruling, bring it with me, and flick off a cop :nard:

That might not save you...

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

That might not save you...

eh, im not black, im well spoken. single baton smack at the most

 

[Type Username Here]

All we need is the Supreme Court to finally make a final ruling on videotaping police officers and we might be able to shift the power back to the people.

This was close

Supreme Court Inaction Boosts Right To Record Police Officers

but they need to make it known explicitly.

 

[Brown_Pride]

lemme print out all 14 pages of this court ruling, bring it with me, and flick off a cop :nard:

Officer: "Your honor I swear to god i thought he had a gun. That's why me and my partner unloaded 2 full clips into his ass."

 

[Mr. Somebody]

All we need is the Supreme Court to finally make a final ruling on videotaping police officers and we might be able to shift the power back to the people.

This was close

Supreme Court Inaction Boosts Right To Record Police Officers

but they need to make it known explicitly.

No more breaks for anyone.

No more, ill give u a pass on this one.

You goin to Jail

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

Officer: "Your honor I swear to god i thought he had a gun. That's why me and my partner unloaded 2 full clips into his ass."

Cop is gonna unload a glock on me for flipping me the bird?

Yall make all cops seem like automatic demons

 

[Rufus Dufus]

 

[jackswstd]

Let me go right out and try this I could use a good beatdown with a nightstick and pepper spraying.

 

[Slystallion]

You'd be stupid to try it...you will have been accused of resisting arrest assaulting an officer and threatening to kill and have spent 24 hrs in a holding cell before you end up taking a shytty plea...

 

[88m3]

Cop is gonna unload a glock on me for flipping me the bird?

Yall make all cops seem like automatic demons

Well I hope for your sake you don't experience a lot of the same things many of the posters here and I have faced.

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

disclaimer: i'm not actually going to go do this