Wilson v. Jean

MEMORANDUM

KEARNEY, District Judge

The First Amendment guarantees a citizen’s right to peacefully protest when he perceives his local fire department unnecessarily delayed in responding to a fire which claimed the lives of four Philadelphia children, including two of his nieces, and destroyed ten homes. The Fourth Amendment guarantees a citizen’s right to be free of arrest without probable cause. Peaceful protest does not involve bottle-throwing, threatening police and blocking the fire department’s egress to attend to another emergency fire call.1 Police officers asked to maintain crowd…