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Flipping the Bird, Even Toward a Cop, Is a Constitutionally Protected Right

by Douglas Ankney

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit affirmed that raising one’s middle finger without the four other fingers showing is an expression protected by the First Amendment.

In doing so, the Court also affirmed the district court’s denial of Officer Matthew Wayne Minard’s plea of ...

 

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