Court Awards Qualified Immunity To Florida Deputy Who Arrested A Driver For An 'I EAT ASS' Window Decal

When the First Amendment meets a law enforcement officer’s ability to be offended on the behalf of the general public, the First Amendment tends to lose. 

The ability to be a proxy offendee affords officers the opportunity to literally police speech. They’re almost never in the right when they do this. But they almost always get away with it. That’s why a Texas sheriff felt comfortable charging a person sporting a “FUCK TRUMP” window decal with disorderly conduct. That’s why a Tennessee cop issued a citation for a stick-figures-in-mid-coitus “Making my family” window decal.

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-WiscoDave