'My image was blasted all over the news, and I didn't do anything wrong.'
Mike Gillis, head writer at The Onion, authored the satirical publication's first-ever brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in defense of parody.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.
Anthony Novak of Parma, Ohio, was arrested in 2016 after making a parody of the city police department's official page on Facebook. He was charged with"disruption of police operations" and later acquitted by a jury.A federal appeals court earlier this year acknowledged "difficult questions" in the case, but said the officers were protected byis set to decide whether to take up his appeal.
Anthony Novak says Parma, Ohio, police violated his First and Fourth Amendment rights when officers arrested and jailed him over the creation of a parody Facebook page mimicking the department's official website.– and that he was jailed as payback. The spoof page included the slogan "We No Crime" and a series of satirical posts, including an announcement banning residents from feeding the homeless and an offer of free abortions from a police van.
Shortly after the spoof went online, the department announced a criminal investigation into the creator of the page poking fun at their officers. Novak says he then deleted the account, which had been online for just 12 hours.
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