New York, NY - Vulgarity to Cop May Mean Jail

New York, NY - A New York City man could be sentenced to 15 days in jail for shouting an obscene and anatomically impossible insult at a police officer.
Ramon Morena was given a summons for an incident in March when an officer approached him on a street corner where he was reportedly having a loud argument, and shouting off his mouth at the cop.

In Morena's first court appearance, his lawyer argued civilians enjoy a First Amendment right to criticize and verbally challenge police officers, but Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Richard Weinberg disagreed.
Weinberg said that defense "would ... effectively carve out a police-officer exception from the disorderly conduct statute and to condone the heaping of verbal abuse upon a police officer regardless of the circumstances. This the court will not do."