What happens if i cuss at a cop?

Question

ok lets say im walking down the street and i see a cop if i just start cussing him outcan he arrest me or if i say something like hmm i smell bacon and then point at him and laugh can he arrest me

Answer 1

Nothing,

where I live it's considered your freedom of speech.

Answer 2

There is no such thing as disturbing the peace of a police officer. You can shout at them all you want and it's perfectly legal. Of course, you'll p**s them off, and they'll find something you did wrong and prosecute you for it, so if you're going to curse out a police officer, you should make sure you aren't breaking any other laws.

Answer 3

Depends on the cop

Answer 4

VERBAL ABUSE IS AN ASSUALT!

Answer 5

Provocation is not covered under the First Amendment, and you can be arrested.

The landmark case on this is Chaplinski v. New Hampshire (commonly called the "Fighting Words Doctrine"). The US Supreme Court determined words intended to provoke are an exception to the First Amendment.

Most officers will tolerate quite a bit if no one else is around, but if there are any witnesses, plan on being arrested.

Answer 6

I have cussed at a cop and i got arrested.

But thats here in compton

Answer 7

Verbal assault is still assault.  Most police will let your immature attitude go as they have more important things to attend to; however, if it was up to me you would be jailed for stupidity & idiocy.  These are the same people you want to protect and help your sorry behind when you need them.  

Answer 8

can they arrest you? probably not. is it an idiotic thing to do? yes, of course. those police officers are risking their lives to keep idiots (like you, obviously) from breaking the law or harming law abiding citizens (like, myself). i wave to them whenever i see them, and call them sir.

Answer 9

No but they will find anything to pull you over and get you in trouble

Answer 10

Hopefully he can find some reason to arrest you.

Answer 11

Nothing.

Free speech, it would look pretty poor if they arrested you for expressing your opinion, thats the very First Amendment.

Trooper: Your the cop, so i'll take your word for it, but i'm fairly certain if you make it clear that your expressing your opinion they cannot arrest you, perhaps i was mistaken.

Answer 12

My friend, thats freedom of speech. You can say whatever you want, and you can't be arrested for it.

ALTHOUGH

you better not be doing anything else. Not on drugs, not disturbing the peace, not 'inciting a riot', or disobeying an officer.  Now those are the things you can be arrested for. Especially if you now have a pissed off cop.

Answer 13

The trooper was right. I say do what you can while there is still time. Martial Law is cropping up all over this country.

Throughout history, humankind has witnessed a disturbing trend that has been continually perpetuated: the suppression of the common man by ruthless tyrants.  Even in the twenty-first century, we are still presented with the imminent danger of tyrants gaining unprecedented power over their subjects. Have we, as a civilization, failed to learn from the vicious lessons of the previous century, which brought 160 million dead?  

    In the United States today, we are faced with two choices according to our government.  On one hand, we can sacrifice our liberties and forfeit some of our revered freedoms; or, we can retain our liberties and freedom, which will exponentially increase our risk of being attacked by "terrorists" that wish to bring harm to us because we are free and prosperous -- or so the U.S. government says.  Benjamin Franklin once intimated that, "Those who would sacrifice freedom for security, deserve neither freedom nor security."  Benjamin Franklin saw the propensity for tyranny to become a reality some 230 years ago.  Upon the conclusion of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, Benjamin Franklin exited the Pennsylvania State House and was approached by several inquisitive people that desired to know what government the founding fathers had given them.  Benjamin Franklin succinctly stated, " A republic if you can keep it."

    In our opinion, tyranny is now at our proverbial doorstep in the United States.  For example, our government now eavesdrops on the telephone conversations of its citizens without warrants.  In 2001, President Bush received the power to declare any American citizen an "enemy combatant" which prevents an American citizen -- with inherent rights which protects against unlawful detention in the form of the United States Constitution -- the right to challenge their detention; moreover, this tyrannical-like statue abolishes one of the main tenets of a democratic republic -- habeas corpus.  If you are not familiar with the enemy combatant definition, let us give to you the proper denotation according to the Bush administration and the Department of Justice: an enemy combatant is simply anyone that the illicit Bush administration or the paradoxically criminal Department of Justice deems a threat to national security.

    The Bush administration says that they are only taking measures to ensure our safety, however, it is our belief that these warmongering fanatics are eerily reminiscent of the ruling party in George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.  In the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four, we see the protagonist, Winston Smith, jailed for subversive crimes (copulating with a young woman and daring to stand up in the face of tyranny) against Big Brother.  Hypothetically, if George Bush wanted to jail us indefinitely, for any crime, then he would be within the law.  The United States has become George Orwell's fictional country of Oceania.  Will we heed the call and stand up to the incremental tyranny that our government is now administering upon us, or will we meet the same fate as the people in George Orwell's Oceania?  The answer to 1984 is 1776.  

On February 14th, American sovereignty was dealt a crushing blow.  Approximately two weeks ago, the American and Canadian governments signed into effect a gargantuan military agreement that will allow one nation to support the other during a domestic civil emergency.  Think about what you have just read.  The United States government has now given authority to foreign troops to patrol our streets; moreover, this perpetually illicit administration has violated the 1878 Posse Comitatus Act, which states that the armed forces shall not be used nominally as police officers to quell "public dissent."

Why would the Bush administration so willingly hand over our sacrosanct sovereignty?  The United States has, without equivocation, the most powerful military this world has ever seen.  With all due respect, I do not envision a situation manifesting itself where the United States would require the assistance of the Canadian military in stemming a public uprising.  What are the true objectives of this joint agreement, which is such an egregious attack on American sovereignty?

When U.S. Air Force General Gene Renaurt, USNORTHCOM commander and Canadian Air Force Lieutenant General Marc Dumais, commander of Canada Command, signed a joint military resolution on February 14th, this signaled the official birth of a greater agenda: The North American Union.  The ultimate plan to eradicate American sovereignty is stealthily hidden from the uninformed public.  For example, Richard N. Gardner, writing in the Council on Foreign Relations magazine Foreign Affairs, April 1974: "In Short, the case-by-case approach can produce some remarkable concessions of sovereignty that could not be achieved on an across-t

Answer 14

I will arrest you for verbal abuse of a cop