 In a lawsuit later filed by the ACLU, the group says that after he was detained in question, Bombard cursed and did give the trooper the finger. The trooper arrested him for disorderly conduct, a charge that was dismissed a year later. In the 2021 lawsuit, the ACLU, along with the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, said the initial stop not only violated Bombard's rights to be free from unreasonable seizure and false arrest,