In an unusual form of protest, Sam O’Hara took to his city’s streets armed with a cell phone and a speaker and proceeded to follow around National Guard troops deployed to Washington, D.C., as he played “The Imperial March” from “Star Wars.”

The iconic song conjures up images of Sith Lords, lightsabers, and galactic totalitarian regimes. And, as it turns out, it can set the stage for a fight over Constitutional rights.

In a federal lawsuit, O’Hara alleges that an Ohio National Guardsman called local police on him and interrupted his right to protest. The complaint filed Thursday by the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation describes O’Hara as being “deeply concerned about the normalization of troops patrolling D.C. neighborhoods,” and thus he took to the troll-ish form of protesting.

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