Our streets are much safer now.

And I'm certain that if the gentleman in this video had been reciting from the Qur'an, he would have been treated the exact same way.

Right?

Yeah.  That's what I thought.

Folks, the vile actions of Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Jerks--picketing the funerals of our fallen warriors with repulsive signs and chants--have been found to constitute "free speech" by the US Supreme Court.  (I believe they also constitute "sufficient reason for a beatdown," but whatever.)  If the WBC is legally protected, what makes this department think they aren't going to face one mother of a false arrest lawsuit?

Just one more reason to flee the People's Republic of Kalifornia.  Why should their taxpayers have to pay for the idiotic and illegal actions and policies of their state and local LEO's?  I find it hard to believe that this nonsense would happen in real America.

(HT iOTW)