A Michigan man was cleared this week of a misdemeanor noise ticket that he was issued after blasting the song “F— tha Police” at a police officer.

James Webb pulled up near an officer conducting a traffic stop in June and played the NWA song at “extremely high volume,” according to the ticket.

Webb told a number of news outlets that he played the song loudly “as a form of protest.”

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Webb fought the citation, and went to trial this week. His attorney, Nicholas Somberg, said that the jury cleared him within 10 minutes.

“The judge shot it down totally,” Somberg told McClatchy.

Somberg, who represented Webb pro bono, argued that the officer would not have issued the ticket if Webb had played a different song.

Webb faced a $500 fine and up to 93 days in jail for allegedly violating a city noise ordinance, but he said that he doesn’t think the volume was the problem.

“I know it was because of the content and not the decibels because he did not give me a warning, he did not say get out of there, he didn't pull out a decimeter, he just straight wrote me a ticket,” Webb told Detroit’s Fox 2 News in June.

Dejuante Franklin, who the officer originally pulled over, said that the cop appeared to be offended by the song, though the police report claims that the citation was given due to the loud volume of the song being played near other customers at the gas station where the traffic stop was taking place.

"The cop was talking to me, handing me my ticket, and was like 'is he playing that for me?' I was like 'I don't know him, you ask him that question.' He was like 'I'm sick of this sh--, I'm going over there now'," Franklin told Fox 2 News.