by Bob Walsh
Robert Spencer is by most reasonable definitions an asshole. That being said under most circumstances you can not arrest people for assholeish behavior.
In July of 2017 Robert Spencer, 30, was arrested by two Garfield Heights (Ohio) police officers and charged with resisting arrest and threatening officers, and battery on one. The whole incident was, of course, recorded on cell phone video by the asshole's GF. He was indulging in insulting and disrespectful verbal behavior towards the officers, but nothing that could reasonably be called threatening or menacing, or even interfering with. .
He got $80,000 for his trouble from the city. The city is also training officers in First Amendment issues. Probably a good idea.
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