TYB
Man flipped off a cop. The cops unlawfully stop him, unlawfully demand ID, unlawfully open his door and drag him out, unlawfully arrest him… ALL FOR PROTECTED FREE SPEECH.
They held him in jail for 3 days and 4 nights. He lost his job. Ultimately all charges dismissed.
Our rights mean nothing when they're continually allowed to do this. All charges dropped, but the process was the punishment. Now it's citizens who will pay their victim.
No, he didn't. He exercised his constitutionally protected right to free speech/expression and let a domestic terrorist what he thought of him. The one "asking for it" is the cops in that video.