Some Americans Calling for Death of Woman Who Urinated on Flag

[Final-Fan]

bigtakilla said:

Final-Fan said:

I think that any officer who does this while being aware of the unconstitutionality of the law is guilty of wrongful imprisonment or some similar crime. 

To the extent that police who are ignorant of the law's blatant unconstitutionality arrest flag-burners, that's no different from if a black man and white woman were arrested for being married, because the police officer forgot it wasn't the 1950s. 

http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/mo-man-receives-7000-after-arrest-for-flag-desecration/

It's not a law that a black man can't marry a white woman.

Essentially it's like saying the neighbor who is burning crosses shouting the N bomb with a white hood is perfectly acceptable. It's in his constitutional rights.

It may be his legal right of expression, but hardly acceptable.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_Integrity_Act_of_1924

Virginia's anti-miscegenation law was overturned as unconstitutional in 1967 but was not formally repealed by the legislature until 1975. 

Is it your position that a police officer would have been within his rights to arrest a black man and his white wife in 1973 for getting married even though that law was ruled unconstitutional six years earlier?  This is exactly analogous to the idea that a police officer is within his rights to arrest someone for flag-burning today.