Vermont pays $175k to man arrested after flipping off state trooper

If America's constitution often seems a dead letter, there yet remains an unambigious first amendment right to give the police a piece of your mind—and the finger. Vermont cops who arrested one man there for doing so have put the state, and its taxpayers, on the hook for $175,000 for the illegal arrest. — Read the rest

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