“The mayor and police chief had Noah arrested, jailed, strip-searched, and criminally prosecuted simply because they didn’t like what Noah had to say,”
Noah Petersen used his three minutes at a Newton City Council meeting to call the police department civil rights violators. The mayor cut him off and the police chief arrested him. He came back, said it again, and got arrested again. A judge acquitted him and struck down the “derogatory statements” rule as unconstitutional. Newton proved his point twice.