Submitted via IRC for Fnord666
Law enforcement officers tend to frown on citizens interfering with their revenue generation. This has led to a number of First Amendment lawsuits from people arrested for warning others about [check notes] the existence of police officers in the vicinity.
One citizen was told as much when he was arrested for holding up a sign reading "Cops Ahead." One cop kept on script, referring to the man's actions as "interfering with an investigation." It wasn't an investigation. It was a distracted driving sting. The cop actually hauling him to the station was more to the point, telling the man he was arresting him for "interfering with our livelihood." First Amendment violation or felony interference with a business model? Why not both?
A lawsuit was filed in 2018 seeking a declaration that honking a car's horn is protected expression. And, all the way back in 2011, a class action lawsuit was filed over citations and arrests for flashing headlights to warn drivers of unseen officers.
A federal judge has decided -- albeit not very firmly -- that at least one of these actions is protected by the First Amendment. Wisconsin Magistrate Judge Stephen Crocker says flashing your headlights to warn drivers of speed traps is expressive speech -- something cops would be better off not trying to punish. (via Volokh Conspiracy)
(Score: 5, Touché) by sshelton76 on Tuesday May 07 2019, @10:08PM (6 children)
I want to understand this. I think I understand it. Can you post it in the original language?
(Score: 5, Funny) by edIII on Wednesday May 08 2019, @12:00AM (1 child)
No. All we get out of Bot is core dumps and the progressively stranger outputs of some kind of cascade failure from the look of it...
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 4, Funny) by Bot on Wednesday May 08 2019, @10:56AM
Note to self, meatbags need commas and sh!t.
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(Score: 2) by realDonaldTrump on Wednesday May 08 2019, @02:48AM
Mew mew, possibly is pussy. Makes sense that it would be pussy, right?
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday May 08 2019, @10:59AM (2 children)
Occhio che l'autovelox è tarocco e ti inchiappettano con la civetta.
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Wednesday May 08 2019, @04:21PM (1 child)
Google Translate doesn't make friendly with that phrase or it's just as cryptic as the previous post. "Watch out that the speed camera is a tarot and they will catch you with the owl."
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 2) by Bot on Wednesday May 08 2019, @06:26PM
Tarot slang for fake, auto civetta slang for police unmarked car.
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