The deputy didn’t like what he saw. One crude bumper sticker on a 23-year-old’s car turned a routine traffic stop into a constitutional showdown. Minutes later, handcuffs clicked, a camera rolled, and a young Floridian was booked like a criminal—for four bold words on vinyl. In a country already locked in arguments over free speech, this arrest poured gasoline on an already burning debate… Continues…
Dillon Shane Webb was driving through Lake City when a sheriff’s deputy noticed a decal plastered across his rear window: “I EAT ASS.”
The deputy didn’t laugh. He didn’t ignore it, either. Instead, he called it obscene—arguing it violated Florida’s disorderly conduct laws—and ordered Webb to remove it.
Webb refused.
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