Jeff Gray was holding up a sign reading “God Bless the Homeless Vets” when he was arrested for panhandling. He says he wasn’t panhandling, however. The retired truck driver has been stopped, searched and arrested by the police for holding up signs in front of city halls all across the country. The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression (FIRE) has filed two lawsuits this week on behalf of Gray saying that his First Amendment rights were violated by the cities of Alpharetta and Blackshear, both in Georgia, the site said. “I have been harassed, trespassed, handcuffed and arrested countle…