Man wins $5,000 after he was cited for flipping off cop
And yet another confirmation that we, as citizens, have every right to tell cops to fuck off.
The latest proof comes from Kansas where the Olathe Police Department was ordered to dish out $5,000 to a man they cited after he said “fuck you” to a cop while flipping him off.
Scott Schaper was cited for contempt of cop, otherwise known as disorderly conduct.
Schaper will keep $4,000 and another $1,000 will go to the ACLU who represented him.
The Olathe Police Department will also be required to train their officers that they are not allowed to cite or arrest people who tell them to fuck off.
Courts nationwide have long held that when it comes to such cases, “saying (f… you) and using one’s middle finger to express discontent or frustration is expressive of conduct protected by the First Amendment,” said Doug Bonney, legal director for the ACLU Chapter of Kansas and Western Missouri.
Olathe police referred all questions to a city spokesman, who simply said, “we will learn from it and go forward.”
The Olathe Police Department actually got off easy. Last year, a Pittsburgh man was awarded $50,000 after he was cited for disorderly conduct for flipping off a cop.
In the recent case, Schaper flipped the cop off after he was given a ticket for failing to yield at a stop sign. He apparently did so because he was taking his children to school and the traffic stop made them cry.
Earlier this year, an Oregon man sued after he was pulled over twice for flipping off cops. That case is still pending.
Personally, I don’t believe it’s professional or polite to go around flipping off cops. But I also know it’s not illegal.
Maybe one day will police will also learn that it’s not illegal.
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Comments
Not only is it not illegal, it appears to be a profitable venture.
Scott´s last blog ..When is a war not a War?
Time to flip off a cop? Well, maybe not, but I reserve the right to do so. Awesome.
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You would think that LEOs would be trained to not escalate these situations and just take these comments/hand-gestures as part of the job.
If anyone wants more information about why it’s legal just google this paper:
Digitus Impudicus: The Middle Finger and the Law. Ira P. Robbins
Good.
Good!
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Scott..
I was thinking the same thing.
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Sends your representative an e-mail telling them you oppose the new pro F.O.P. Senate bill. Looks like we’re running out of time so get your letter in tonight.
Folks, congress is apparently trying to push this one through on a fast track. Last night Senator Harry Reid introduced Senate bill 3194 that has nearly identical wording as S.1611 and HR 413 in a way that will force it to the Senate floor for a vote tomorrow which would send the bill to the House where they plan to amend it to their bill which would do away with the need to put it in a conference committee, sending it straight to the president for signature into law.
Simply put, this law would force every law enforcement agency in the US to allow police unions to have a say not only in pay and benefit issues, but also in disciplinary policies. If you thought it was hard to hold cops accountable for misconduct now, just wait until police unions get to influence disciplinary policies in every police department and sheriff’s office in the US!
This is one nasty piece of legislation and we must voice our opposition to it NOW, before they sneak it through congress before anyone knows what hit them!
http://www.injusticeeverywhere.com/?p=2181
Yet another story that has nothing to do with harassment of photographers. I do wish we could get back to that topic, we need to stay focused.
Why? I read this blog not just for the photography stuff but for police issues like this.
And it does have a bearing on why he started this blog: he was cited for contempt of cop too.
I agree with Matt. PANIC is about issues photographers have with cops, but those spill over into other areas as well. Anytime LEOs abuse their authority it endangers everyone, including photographers.
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Personally I say fuck all cops!
You’ve earned the right to be told to fuck off and be held in general discontent.
You are nothing but drains on society.
Rather than go out and arrest child molestors,rapists and gang bangers you sit around twiddling your 2″ peckers and handing out tickets to people for making rolling right turns and not wearing seat belts.
Its all about generating revenue,not performing some public good.
Every time one of your worthless fuckers winds up laying face down in the street I rejoice.
Fuck you pig! (middle finger extended to you)
The only thing worse than a cop is a judge.
A judge is an arrogant facist horse fucker with a sexual fixation on raping decent people who actually do something with their lives.
A judge isnt happy unless you’ve had his broken jagged gavel shoved forcefully up your ass until you cry for mercy.
Then he reached around back toward your wallet and proceeds to rape you off all your money.
I’d love to have 10 minutes alone in Judges chambers alone with one of the sad fucks.
I take a claw hammer to his cocksucking skull and keep swinging until his face looks like a bowl of spaghetti.
Fuck you your honor!
“You’ve earned the right to be told to fuck off and be held in general discontent.”
Ah, so delightful to be in the company of intellectual giants!
“A judge is an arrogant facist horse fucker with a sexual fixation on raping decent people who actually do something with their lives.”
YOO HOO! DR. FRUED!!
Uhhh, Mr. Carr? It’s spelled F-R-E-U-D, btw.
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