"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."
"Armed National Guard should not be policing D.C. residents as we walk around our neighborhoods,"
"It was important to me not to normalize this dystopian occupation."
A lawsuit filed on October 23 accuses four Washington, D.C., police officers, an Ohio National Guard sergeant, and the District of violating a protester's constitutional right to play the "Imperial March" theme from Star Wars. Sam O'Hara was tightly handcuffed and detained for about 20 minutes after ignoring a National Guard member's warning to stop playing the song. The complaint alleges First Amendment violations for restraining recording and peaceful protest and Fourth Amendment and false-arrest violations for a groundless seizure. O'Hara frequently filmed Guard deployments and posted videos to a TikTok account with over a million likes to avoid normalizing the armed presence. The theme evokes a fictional fascist empire and Nazi aesthetics.
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