The deputy didn’t like what he saw. One crude bumper sticker on a 23‑year‑old’s car turned a routine traffic stop into a constitutional showdown. Minutes later, handcuffs clicked, a camera rolled, and a young Floridian was booked like a criminal—for four bold words on vinyl. In a country already arguing over speech, this arrest lit a fresh, furious deba…
Dillon Shane Webb was driving through Lake City, Florida, when a sheriff’s deputy spotted a decal on his rear window: “I EAT ASS.” The deputy called it obscene and claimed it violated the state’s disorderly conduct laws. Webb refused to remove or alter the sticker, calmly insisting he had a First Amendment right to display it. Moments later, he was arrested, his car searched, and he was taken to jail over a joke a court would likely deem protected speech.
