Everyone has an opinion about this, so I guess I should too. The short version: Police do not like to be berated or challenged, period, and an incident like this should call more attention to police abuse of the charge of "disorderly conduct" as a way of trampling on the First Amendment rights of citizens to challenge police conduct. The longer version here.
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