Protests against President Trump’s decision to send the National Guard into American cities have no shortage of whimsy, but the empire struck back against one demonstrator.

A lawsuit filed on October 23 accuses police officers and a National Guard member of violating a protester’s constitutional right to play the “Imperial March” theme from Star Wars.

The D.C. resident, Sam O’Hara, was “tightly handcuffed” and detained for 20 minutes after ignoring a warning from a National Guard member to stop playing the song. In the complaint, O’Hara alleges that four Washington, D.C., police officers, an Ohio National Guard sergeant, and the District of Columbia violated his First Amendment rights.

“Government conduct of this sort might have received legal sanction a long time ago in a galaxy far, f

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