Cop Travis Michael English Gets Qualified Immunity After Jailing Florida Man Dillon Shane Webb for 'I Eat Ass' Bumper Sticker

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Cops Get Qualified Immunity After Jailing Florida Man for 'I Eat Ass' Bumper Sticker

28 September 2021

New life was injected into a free speech legal saga over an "I Eat Ass" bumper sticker yesterday when a federal judge ruled that the expression might violate Florida's obscenity law and would thus be unprotected by the First Amendment. At the center of the odyssey is Florida man Dillon Shane Webb, who was pulled over in May of 2019 after Columbia County Sheriff's Deputy Travis English took exception to the sticker. Webb declined to censor it on the spot, his vehicle was searched, and he was subsequently arrested and booked in jail for "obscene writing on vehicles" and "resisting ...

Cops Get Qualified Immunity After Jailing Florida Man for 'I Eat Ass' Bumper Sticker

Dillon Shane Webb will thus not be able to sue for the alleged violation of his free speech rights.

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

7 October 2021

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. And that's why a Florida law ...

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...

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