Has a police officer ever done something that deserved a good cursing out? Hard to say. But just so you know, the highest court in New York just ruled that it’s legal for you to let them have it.
On Thursday, according to the Associated Press, New York’s Court of Appeals overturned the convictions of a man named Richard Gonzalez who yelled at police on a city subway and subsequently found himself charged with disorderly conduct as well as weapon possession (Gonzalez, a maintenance worker, said the knife in his pocket was a work tool bought at Home Depot). The court ruled that there was “no record to support the disorderly conduct charge,” stating that a dispute between a civilian and a police officer is criminal only at “a point where it becomes a potential or immediate public problem.”
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