Is It A First Amendment Violation To Get Pulled Over For Flashing Your Lights To Warn Others Of Cops?

(hope?) Know, is a fairly standard practice for the drivers of oncoming traffic to warn of the presence of a police car with flashing lights waiting for them once they have passed the police car. Ron Rezende alerts us to a potential case of the First Amendment, in which a man is said that the police had violated his First Amendment rights to pull over and issue a summons because

which showed his light to others.

"Campbell's lawyer, Marc J. Jones claims the right to speak his client's First Amendment freedom has been violated. "The flashing lights to communicate with one other driver is clearly speak," he said.


effort is actually a class action on behalf of others who were also arrested in such circumstances is no doubt that an interesting question in terms of what constitutes "speech "by the First Amendment

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