A single profane comment about a surveillance camera has spiralled into a First Amendment controversy engulfing a small-town South Carolina police department.
Christian McClellan, a resident of Ridge Spring, says he criticised the town's Flock Safety licence-plate cameras on the police department's own Facebook page, only to receive a direct message roughly a week later warning that a warrant was being sought and that U.S. Marshals would be sent to arrest him.
