A Florida law student who also happens to be a Harvard graduate says that a Florida policeman who heard the student cranking up a song with off-color lyrics about the police wrote him some traffic citations.

Cesar Baldelomar was reportedly driving to his mother’s residence on the morning of Thanksgiving when he stopped at a traffic light in Hialeah. The 26-year-old also happened to be playing an N.W.A. song called “F___ the Police” on his car’s stereo system. As Baldelomar passed by the scene of a traffic accident, Officer Harold Garzon evidently took note of some of the song’s lyrics, which suggest that some police kill minorities because of their skin color.

And then the song’s eponymous chorus sounded – loudly through Baldelomar’s open car window – for a total of four times. Which is kind of difficult to ignore when you’re a policeman doing your job on a holiday morning.

According to a report from Miami New Times, Garzon said to Baldelomar, “Really? You’re really playing that song? Pull over.”

When Garzon mentioned that it was illegal to play loud music within 25 feet of another human being, Baldelomar begged to differ.

As he tells New Times, “In 2012 the state supreme court struck down any law banning loud music. I knew that because it was a case I had actually studied in law school.”

This stance evidently did not satisfy the policeman, who called over a couple of colleagues and asked to see Baldelomar’s proof of insurance, which the student called up on his phone. Garzon insisted that that wasn’t good enough and that the insurance proof had to be on paper. (Which is not the case, as Florida changed that law a year or so back.)

Garzon wound up issuing three tickets to Bandelomar (but not one of them was for a noise violation), who vowed to fight the matter in court. “I’m educated. I know my rights. And I speak English, so I can fight this,” he says. “But what about when this happens to someone who’s not so lucky?”

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