Giving the middle finger may not be nice, but it is people’s “God-given” right, a Canadian judge has ruled in clearing a man of harassment charges in a neighbors’ quarrel.Friday, Quebec court judge Dennis Galiatsatos unequivocally proclaimed that displaying the rude hand gesture does not constitute a criminal act.
In May 2021, police in the Montreal suburb of Beaconsfield arrested 45-year-old Neall Epstein, a local school teacher, on charges of uttering death threats and criminal harassment after he “flipped off” his neighbor, Michael Naccache. Epstein responded to his neighbor’s unhinged antics by telling him to “f–k off” and giving him a double middle finger salute, before walking away from the confrontation.
“On what basis did he fear that Mr. Epstein was a potential murderer?” the judge wondered. “The fact that he went for quiet walks with his kids? The fact that he socialized with the other young parents on the street? If that is the standard, we should all fear that our neighbors are killers-in-waiting.”
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