Why isn't it "If they can come for Anthony Novak, they can come for you"?
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday turned away an Ohio man's claim that his constitutional rights were violated when he was arrested and prosecuted for making satirical posts about his local police department on Facebook.
The justices' rejection of Anthony Novak's appeal means his civil rights lawsuit against the Parma, Ohio, police department cannot move forward. With its decision, the court again declined to consider revisiting "qualified immunity," the contentious legal defense that allows police officers and other government officials off the hook in civil rights cases if a constitutional violation has not been "clearly established" at the time it occurs.
At issue in the case was whether the police officers were correctly granted qualified immunity by a lower court under the rationale that previous court precedent had not clearly established that Novak's actions constituted protected speech under the Constitution's First Amendment.
In March 2016, Novak set up a Facebook page that purported to be the Parma Police Department. He published six satirical posts during a 12-hour period, one of which claimed there was a job opening to which minorities were encouraged not to apply and another warning people not to give food, money or shelter to homeless people.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-ohio-mans-bid-sue-police-arrest-facebook-parody-rcna70435
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