Flipping off a traffic cop is protected free speech, a court rules

It sounds like something Florida Man would do, but instead it was an act of protest and defiance from a Michigan woman: Debra Cruise-Gulyas had been pulled over for speeding. The officer, Matthew Minard, wrote her a ticket for a lesser, non-moving offense. After accepting the citation, Cruise-Gulyas, of Taylor, Mich., was driving away from the traffic stop when, "apparently ungrateful for the reduction, she made an all-too-familiar gesture at Minard with her hand and without four of her fingers showing," read an opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.