Cop arrests man for laughing.

Is that illegal?

An oldie but a goodie.

Would love to know how that played out - did they drop everything or was this cop told that everything was a-ok with how he handled that.

"I could take you to jail for having an unsigned registration card. That's up to six months in jail."



Is that even remotely true?

In 2008 I was almost arrested by a Chicago police officer for looking at him. We were outside of a Wrigley field and my friend had handed another friend his ticket to the game. Cop thought we were selling tickets so he came over and threatened to arrest us. He and my friend are going back and forth about how he got the ticket and why the other friend didnt yet have his and the entire time I'm looking at the cop. He looks at me and asks why I'm eyeballing him. I proceed to say that its typically polite to look at the person speaking to you. He grabs me, puts me in cuffs and places me in the car. After about 30 minutes another officer opens the door and asks what I did. I tell him the story and then he takes the cuffs off, grabs my shite off the hood of the car and says go enjoy the game.

Cool story bro! Not all cops are good cops, some are just assholes.

God, so many cops are assholes.

This is sickening he got upset because he was laughing.

Looks like he may have won his appeal.

I just hope this cop was fired. He should not be a cop.

No. Federal courts have said it's protected free speech, but they also said you have to follow the law about not doing it within 500 ft of oncoming traffic and you could be charged with interfering with police operations.

He'd probably win on appeal, though, because the video clearly shows the deputy cherry-picking and loosely interpreting statutes to back up a personal vendetta/ego trip. The signed registration law had been repealed for a while when he wrote the citation, so that is clear evidence that he was digging and using his badge to harass the driver.

This incident was from 2022, btw.

Eta - the driver won on appeal. The deputy was in an OIS the next month where another deputy was killed. They were investigating break-ins when the dopers doing it started shooting at them.