Today's feel good story is via
Wired:
A Virginia man who wrote an abbreviated version of the Fourth
Amendment on his body and stripped to his shorts at an airport security
screening area won a trial Friday in his lawsuit seeking $250,000 in
damages for being detained on a disorderly conduct charge.
Aaron Tobey claimed in a civil rights lawsuit
(.pdf) that in 2010 he was handcuffed and held for about 90 minutes by
the Transportation Security Administration at the Richmond International
Airport after he began removing his clothing to display on his chest a
magic-marker protest of airport security measures.
“Amendment 4: The right of the people to be secure against
unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated,” his chest and
gut read.
Bonus:
Judge quoted Ben Franklin in opinion.
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