Flipping finger at cops not worth arrest

A federal appeals court in New York has reinstated a lawsuit brought by a man who was arrested after giving the finger to a police officer and sued for what he calls a malicious prosecution.
A lower court judge in Albany had tossed out the claim after police maintained they stopped Swartz's car because they feared the finger gesture was a sign of a domestic dispute.
The appeals court says such a conclusion is unreasonable given "the nearly universal recognition that this gesture is an insult."