I guess the rest of won’t get reduced violations or warning tickets. Way to go lady. Here’s my finger!
Freepers from New Jersey knew this already.
....but if you put a miniature hijab
on the tip of that finger you could be shot
Raise your middle finger at a judge and see what happens.
I might have known. Giving the finger to a cop is allowed in NY. Wanna bet if you do that to a protected minority you’ll go right to jail?
The Bird is free to use. Groovy.
But Heaven’s to Betsy if you wear a hat that reads “Make America Great Again”.
You’d be sent to the Gulag.
SOCTUS ruled this to be protected speech along time ago and yet the states and LEO still
bring charges.
it may be ‘protected speech’ but just try it and enjoy being harassed by police for well, forever- They have your license plate number name and address don’t forget- and will likely issue an APB to watch out for so and so- pull over the vehicle, make sure everything is legal- etc-
Why wouldn’t “the bird” be considered a “fighting word”?
“Fighting words are, as first defined by the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) in Chaplinsky v New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942), words which “by their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. It has been well observed that such utterances are no essential part of any exposition of ideas, and are of such slight social value as a step to truth that any benefit that may be derived from them is clearly outweighed by the social interest in order and morality.”” (www.law.cornell.edu.)
This has been a settled issue for many decades. Cops just need to ignore this stuff. Anything short of an assault or a threat of assault is protected speech.
Good. It’s the universal bad driving symbol.
Obama did it all the time, he thought he was being sly the way he did it.
I never understood using the longest finger. A better insult would be the pinky.
If I’m close enough, you may end up with a sprained or broken middle finger. “Yes, officer, I did bend it, but I was in fear of him poking my eye with it!”
So next time....after the bird pull her over to ask if she is ok, “I saw you signal me.” Half hour later, “Everything checks out, have a good day.”