Forum Newsfront

September, 1979

Freedom of SpeechFort Lauderdale--While Florida's law makes it illegal to "obstruct or oppose" a police officer, it does not apply to a person who merely cusses out a cop, according to a Broward County court. In the case of a 24-year-old woman who did just that during her arrest in connection with a family argument, the court went on to say: "We would conclude that when the sole resistance to the police is verbal, whether obscene, profane, insulting or vulgar, it comes within the...