Florida man arrested for his "I Eat Ass" bumper sticker may sue sheriff's office
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A Florida man arrested this week for refusing to remove a sticker on his pickup truck proclaiming that he eats ass will not be prosecuted, officials said Thursday. Now the man is
threatening to sue the sheriff's office for violating his First Amendment rights.
Dillon Shane Webb, 23, was stopped Sunday on a highway in Lake City, west of Jacksonville, by a Columbia County sheriff's deputy who saw a sticker on his rear window that read, "I EAT
ASS." Dashcam footage shows the deputy telling Webb that the reason he was pulled over was "the derogatory sticker" on the back of his truck. Webb was issued a summons for what the
sheriff's deputy said was a misdemeanor violation of Florida's obscene-materials law.
When the deputy told Webb to remove one of the letters from the words "ASS" to read "AS," Webb refused, citing his constitutional right to free speech. The deputy subsequently arrested
Webb and charged him with the additional offense of resisting an officer without violence. In a notice filed Thursday, prosecutors announced that they were dropping the charges against
him.
Webb's lawyer, Andrew Bonderud, told BuzzFeed News they were now considering "a number of potential claims" against the sheriff's office. Bonderud noted that the dashcam footage
shows the deputy at first telling his client that the sticker was "derogatory" instead of "obscene." He also highlighted that at several points, one of the deputy's colleagues can be heard
telling him via the radio to "tow his shit." "Not only were they wrong on the law, but they happen to be hypocrites," he said.
Good, because even if it is stupid, he literally did nothing wrong, and the court said so, which is why it got thrown out.
It was just a butthurt cop.
oh my lord what a story to tell for the ages. But on a more serious note you can't be serious about this man getting arrested for that I almost like to believe he may have an actual case here.
Clear violation of his first ammendment rights, and I quote:
"Proudly proclaim ones proclivities to eating ass"
That cop really didn't have anything better to do did he?