Parker, you posted -
Originally Posted By: eddie
\Let me pose a hypothetical. A cop walks by your home, you lean out the window and call him or her a racist pig. Is that an arrestable offense?


I'd probably say yes. I'm almost 100% positive that nothing good will come out of someone yelling a racial slur out of a window at a uniformed police officer. If the officer deems you to be a "threat to society", he's going to arrest you. Anyone who yells racial slurs out their window at uniformed officer is probably a good candidate for someone who is "a threat to society".
Looking at the rest of your post, you indicate that the civilian (Dogfish in this case) must feel threatened in order to file a complaint. Can a police officer make the complaint that he or she is threatened by words? And what makes a police officer a different kind of citizen when we are talking about someone yelling from their private property? I would agree that the person yelling is stupid, stupidity is not an arrestable offense - for better or for worse.