The American Civil Liberties Union says The Force, errr, First Amendment is with Sam O'Hara, filing a lawsuit on his behalf after he was handcuffed and detained after following National Guard troops in Washington, D.C. playing the Darth Vader theme from the Star Wars film franchise.
I honesty don’t think the national guard did something bad. We should blame the police for not chewing out the national guard for wasting their time, then leaving.
The Guard is an agent of the state. Being this clueless about the First Amendment shows poorly on him as an American, but also suggests poor training by his command structure.
Yes, the MPD are actually the ones who violated his civil rights.
Are national guard trained in protestor rights? They aren’t police, aren’t trained as police, and have no business policing unless it’s a state of emergency.
Unless I’m totally off base. I don’t know anything about the American national guard. I’m not even American.