https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20201015/12051745509/san-diego-cops-who-abused-old-seditious-language-law-to-ticket-residents-also-engaged-other-misconduct.shtml

A few months ago, Voice of San Diego reported cops in the city were ticketing people for the strangest crime: sedition. An old law no one had bothered to take off the books allowed officers to literally police speech. Despite several rulings showing using foul language or flipping the bird to cops is protected speech, cops in San Diego are abusing this bad law to ticket people for "contempt of cop," which isn't an actual crime anywhere.

"Seditious language" tickets have been handed out 83 times since 2013. The 1918 law has been used to ticket someone for singing a rap song's lyrics within earshot of a cop. One person was even ticketed in their own home for swearing a bit too much around officers. The only data on race shows 8 of 11 recipients of these tickets were black. (No race was noted on a majority of citations Voice of San Diego examined.)