Cops Arrest Man For Having "Their Feelings Hurt" By His Satire Police Facebook Page

 In 1988, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously agreed in Hustler v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46, that a parody, which no reasonable person expected to be true, was protected free speech.

In the three decades since, politicians and government agencies have ignored this ruling and attempted to travel after those that mock them using satire and parody.

Police officers are the worst when it involves getting triggered after being made fun of with parody or satire accounts.

As the following case illustrates, their rage at someone's free speech can manifest into deprivation of rights, kidnapping, and extortion.

Michael Samuel Joseph Freemen runs a Facebook page under the name Borger local department .

Aside from the content of the posts, the brand looks very almost like the particular Borger local department except that on the proper on Freeman's version, it clearly states that this is often a "Satire / Parody" Facebook page.

The Borger local department claimed it wasn't always labeled during this manner.

It doesn't matter as "No reasonable person expected it to be true." What's more, the censors at Facebook did not have a drag with it and our readers skills ban and censorship happy they will be.

Because many cops don't wish to have their feelings hurt, for running the page that's clearly labelled as satire, a warrant was issued for Freemen's arrest.

He turned himself in last week on a charge listed as "ONLINE IMPERSONATION-NAME/PERSONA CREATE PAGE" which is a clear regard to Sec.

Of the Texas legal code forbidding creation of a web page with the "Name or persona" of another person.

Spoiler alert, the Borger local department isn't an individual .

In a ridiculous little bit of irony, below may be a post from the important Borger local department page showing them celebrating the very fact that they stole CBD and cannabis products that a lot of people were getting to be using as medicine.

The fact that cops still think it's an honest idea to brag about robbing people of their medicine should be satire in 2020 - but it's not.

Freeman apparently grasps this notion and thus started the satire page.

Highlighting the ridiculous nature of police claiming Freemen was impersonating them is that the incontrovertible fact that anyone who scrolls down the page will clearly see that it's making fun of the Borger PD and not pretending to be them.

Ryan Brown of Blackburn & Brown, LLP in Amarillo told the Pampa News that Freemen's ordeal is an extreme miscarriage of justice.

"What happened here is that the officers of Borger PD got their feelings hurt, and now they're just extorting Mr. Freeman by making him come to Borger and spend all this money," he said.

On top of his arrest, Borger's bail also seemed excessive because it was set at $15,000.

"I'm not a criminal and didn't do anything wrong, no reason to run or hide," Freeman said.

If you want to donate to Freemen's cause, you'll do so here.

Freeman isn't the primary person to be targeted for offending cops and he certainly won't be the last.

Just this month, TFTP reported on a family who was harassed by police after they made a Facebook post complaining about how an off-duty officer shot and killed their dog and got away with it.

Cops actually showed up to their home after complaining about their dog's death on Facebook and threatened them.

That's not all, during a case extremely almost like Freemen's, Anthony Novak attempted to mock the Parma local department in Ohio and call out their numerous violations of citizens' civil rights by creating a fake Parma PD Facebook page and ridicule of its department.

The police, whose pride had apparently been offended, arrested Novak for expressing his 1st Amendment right to free speech through satire.

He took his case all the thanks to trial and was acquitted.