
Appeals court rules man who was ticketed for shouting at police to turn on headlights can sue
Fox News
The U.S. Court of Appeals reversed a decision from a district judge in Buffalo after Anthony Rupp shouted 'turn your lights on' with an expletive to a police SUV.
The new ruling sends the case back to district court for trial, arguing that the profane statement during the December 2016 encounter might be considered an "eminently reasonable" attempt to avert an accident.
R. Anthony Rupp III, a civil rights attorney, said he did not initially intend to sue over the incident, but changed his mind after learning the same officers were involved two months later in the arrest of an unarmed man who died of an asthma attack after struggling while being handcuffed.
A 2017 investigation by the attorney general's office found insufficient evidence to warrant criminal charges against Officers Todd McAlister and Nicholas Parisi in the death of 20-year-old Wardel "Meech" Davis.













