Ohio man, jailed for fake Facebook page, asks SCOTUS to let him sue police – By Devin Dwyer, Patty See , and Isabella Meneses (ABC News) / Jan 5, 2023
The Onion defends parody of law enforcement in a legal brief.
PARMA, Ohio — The parking lot arrest in 2016 stunned Anthony Novak as much as the charge: alleged disruption of law enforcement operations for making a parody of his local police department’s page on Facebook.
“They said, ‘put your hands behind your back.’ They said, ‘fake Parma Facebook page,'” Novak recounted to ABC News of the moment Parma police officers took him into custody outside a neighborhood convenience store in 2016.
Novak, 33, went on to spend four days in jail. A local jury later acquitted him of any wrongdoing. Now, he’s trying to sue the police for alleged violation of his civil rights.
A federal appeals court earlier this year acknowledged “difficult questions” in the case, but said the officers were protected by qualified immunity and dismissed Novak’s claims.
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