A Washington, D.C., resident who was detained last month for following National Guardsmen around while playing “The Imperial March” from Star Wars is claiming in a lawsuit filed through the American Civil Liberties Union of D.C. that the force should not have been with the people who arrested him, but with the U.S. Constitution.
“Government conduct of this sort might have received legal sanction a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away,” the ACLU wrote in its filing.
“But in the here and now, the First Amendment bars government officials from restraining individuals from recording law enforcement or peacefully protesting, and the Fourth Amendment (along with the District’s prohibition on false arrest) bars groundless seizures,” the lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, states.
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