The satirical site is supporting a man who was arrested for impersonating police when he built a parody website to make fun of them. The man was acquitted of the charge and is now suing the police department for violating his constitutional rights.
WASHINGTON — The Onion has some serious things to say in defense of parody.
The court filing doesn’t entirely keep a straight face, calling the federal judiciary “total Latin dorks.” The posts were published over 12 hours and included an announcement of new police hiring “strongly encouraging minorities to not apply.” Another post promoted a fake event in which child sex offenders could be “removed from the sex offender registry and accepted as an honorary police officer.”
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