Posted on 05/08/2024 2:28:40 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — More than a month after members of the University of Utah women's basketball team were subjected to racial epithets shouted their way en route to a team dinner, Coeur d'Alene prosecutors have declined to charge an 18-year-old high school student who confessed to the incident.
Prosecutors for the city said the Post Falls High student admitted to police after a three-week investigation that he shouted the N-word and a specific sex act toward members of the team and traveling party who are Black.
The student told police he intended for the yelling to "be funny," according to a statement by chief deputy city attorney Ryan Hunter.
Despite the "rank absurdity of that claim and the abjectly disgusting thought process required to believe it would be humorous to say something that abhorrent," Hunter said the actions, which amounted to protected speech based on Idaho law, did not amount to criminal conduct.
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When I was young the N-word was Neanderthal.
“he shouted the N-word”
I hear the Newfoundlanders really hate being called ‘Newfies’.
At least he didn’t call them nappy-headed hos. (reference to Don Imus)
Good. Sticks & Stones and all that....
He didn’t commit a crime, but he wasn’t just being “silly”.
n-word = nappy-head?
“allegedly”
Hard to see what the crime was since just being an obnoxious jerk and hurting someone’s feelings isn’t a crime.
He heard it in a rap song and thought they would identify
At one time many states had “fighting words” laws that made it illegal to say something that might provoke a fight. The Supreme Court has not completely struck down such laws. But the Court has narrowed them.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fighting_words#United_States
Crass, rude, inappropriate.... Yes.
Grounds to be asked to leave.... Okay.
Grounds for arrest..... Now that’s scary!
Insults indicate poor upbringing....threats are criminal.
Goes beyond silly, but still well within the bounds of Constitutionally protected speech.
I’ll be curious to see how the “antisemitic speech” laws getting passed in various places, including GA, hold up. They generally seem like complete garbage from a 1A perspective.
The young man admitted that he used the N word and mentioned some sex act...
I guess there are no serious crimes in Coeur D'Alene, so the police had time on their hands.
There is no N-word if they call each other themselves that.
So...he’s an aspiring rapper?
The leftists are all up in arms over it and want him prosecuted. They have no concept of free speech. Nor the fact that jailing someone for using the N word is also justification for jailing lefties for calling white people honkies.
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