Overview
- Jeana Renea Gamble, 61, was arrested Oct. 18 in Fairhope, Alabama, and charged with misdemeanor disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
- Police say they responded to traffic-hazard complaints and ordered her to remove the phallic costume as obscene; she refused, and viral video shows officers taking her to the ground.
- Mayor Sherry Sullivan and City Council President Jack Burrell defended the response as enforcing public decorum and said Gamble resisted arrest.
- Indivisible Baldwin County and civil-liberties attorneys argue the costume was political expression protected by the First Amendment, citing precedent such as Cohen v. California.
- Court records set a Nov. 5 municipal hearing, with potential penalties of up to six months in jail and a $3,000 fine for resisting arrest and up to three months and $500 for disorderly conduct.