A man who says he was detained by police for following a National Guard patrol while playing Darth Vader’s theme song from Star Wars on his phone has sued the District of Columbia, claiming the officers violated his constitutional rights.

Sam O’Hara, 35, from Washington, D.C., filed a lawsuit on Thursday, stating that the orchestral music of The Imperial March is the soundtrack for his peaceful protests against U.S. President Donald Trump’s deployment of National Guard members in the nation’s capital.

“Given the roughly 200-year-old tradition of civilian law enforcement in the United States, Mr. O’Hara was deeply concerned about the normalization of troops patrolling D.C. neighborhoods,” the federal lawsuit says.

“And so, he began protesting the Guard members’ presence by w

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