The ACLU said state trooper Jay Riggen violated Gregory Bombard’s First and Fourth Amendment rights when he was arrested during a 2018 traffic stop in Vermont.
The state of Vermont agreed to pay $175,000 to settle a lawsuit filed after a man was charged with a crime for raising his middle finger at a state trooper, the American Civil Liberties Union
“This incident should never have happened in the first place,” Hillary Rich, an attorney for ACLU Vermont, said in aRiggen pulled Bombard over in St. Albans in February 2018 because he believed Bombard had raised his middle finger at him, according to theThe lawsuit said Riggen questioned Bombard, who denied making the gesture, for “several minutes” before saying he was free to leave.
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