Well, I just gotta say to Mr. Potty Mouth....you ought to be ashamed of yourself.... And I hope Pat Robertson is saying a prayer for you!
PITTSBURGH -- Erica Upshaw was having one of those days.
The mother of three was rushing a load of groceries to her sister's house when she was pulled over by an officer who said she had made an incomplete stop.
When told her driver's license was suspended, Upshaw used a profanity to describe her day. She ended up in jail for her choice of words.
"It was so humiliating," recalled Upshaw, 28, who said she was trying to get home to tend to a 6-year-old daughter who had just lost a tooth.
The American Civil Liberties Union says that when North Braddock police arrested Upshaw in the summer of 2000 for foul language, the officers joined a growing number of police who have crossed a line drawn by the courts.
Upshaw's case is at the center of one of two lawsuits the ACLU filed last week in federal court in Pittsburgh, accusing area police departments of violating people's right to free speech. The lawsuits seek unspecified damages.