WASHINGTON - Sam O’Hara, a Washington, D.C. resident who protested National Guard troops by playing the Star Wars "Imperial March," has filed a lawsuit alleging police and a National Guard member violated his constitutional rights by detaining him.

According to the ACLU, O'Hara sued an Ohio National Guard member and four Metropolitan Police Department officers for violating his constitutional rights and D.C. law.

The American Civil Liberties Union of the District of Columbia (ACLU-D.C.) filed the lawsuit on O’Hara’s behalf.

The backstory:

Following President Donald Trump’s August 11 deployment of D.C. National Guard members—and the subsequent arrival of additional troops from several states, O’Hara began protesting their presence in his neighborhood.

The ACLU said his form of protes

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