Why not give the finger to a cop in North Carolina?

This is why not:

Extending one’s middle finger in the general direction of a police officer (at about the distance of a football field) gives the officer reasonable suspicion to conduct a traffic stop, says the Court of Appeals of North Carolina (over a dissent).

–From John Ross’s Circuit court review in the Volokh Report

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