Texas Cops On The Hunt For Obscene Anti-Trumper

Fort Bend County, TX police are searching for a driver whose “colorfully worded” truck sticker has people upset.

According to this:

Sheriff Troy E Nehls posted a photo on Facebook of the pickup driving down the FM 395, with a decal reading ‘F**k Trump and f**k you for voting for him’ on its back window.

‘Our Prosecutor has informed us she would accept Disorderly Conduct charges regarding [the sticker], but I feel [police and the driver] could come to an agreement regarding a modification to it,’ he wrote.

He thought the post would lead him the to the “offender” … but it led to a LOT more.

Nevertheless, Nehls seemed to hope that his post might bear fruit; instead, it bore the brunt of a lot of angry Facebook posters.
‘Your prosecutor should concentrate on real crime,’ wrote Antonio Herrera, while Alissa Nguyen said: ‘What A Joke. Love Seeing our law enforcement wasting time and energy on pointless s**t.’

And Kasey Rose-Hodge remarked: ‘If I had to explain what “grab them by the p***y” meant to my kids, you can explain “F**k Trump” to yours.’

Trump didn’t shout “grab them by the p***y” into your child’s ear while you were driving them to school. Chances are if you had to “explain” that to your kid it’s because you wanted to… but whatever, folks.

In an attempt to impress upon the commenters the importance of this investigation, Nehls posted the definition of disorderly conduct according to local law.

It cites using ‘abusive, indecent, profane, or vulgar language in a public place’ that ‘tends to incite an immediate breach of the peace’.

HOWEVER… many are saying a 1971 SCOTUS case may impede the driver from being charged.

In 1971, in the case Cohen v California, the Supreme Court overturned a conviction against a 19-year-old Paul Robert Cohen for wearing a jacket reading ‘F**k the draft’ in a courthouse.

In a statement, Justice John Marshall Harlan II wrote: ‘Absent a more particularized and compelling reason for its actions, the State may not, consistently with the First and Fourteenth Amendments, make the simple public display of this single four-letter expletive a criminal offense.’

He added: ‘one man’s vulgarity is another’s lyric.’

And of course, the ACLU is getting involved.

The Texas chapter of the ACLU tweeted Nehls to make that exact point, including a photograph of a book citing the constitutional protection for ‘profane and indecent language’.

‘You can’t prosecute speech just because it has the word “f*ck” in it,’ they tweeted, adding: ‘(And the owner of the truck should feel free to contact @ACLUTx.) #ConstitutionalLaw101 #FreeSpeech’

Would the ACLU have gotten involved over a “F**k Obama and F**k you for voting for him” sticker?

Undetermined.

Does Fort Bend County have an actual case against this foul-stickered driver?

Also Undetermined.

What do YOU think?