Some speech for some groups is more free than for other groups....
I mean this is an attorney making the claim right? Does the use of the word nigger by a non black provide a legal invitation to physical violence? Is it some kind of beat down 'get out of jail free' card?
Yes, yes, and yes....
Is it some kind of beat down 'get out of jail free' card?
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Maybe, as such inflamatory statement can be viewed as
"fighting words." Would a jury convict someone who committed a simple assault after being egged on by fighting words? Hard to say. Would you vote to convict as a jury member, if someone punched someone else in the nose that started verbally abusing and calling vile names toward the defendents 79 year old mother? I would need the full circumstances to know if I would.
But if anyone was uttering fighting words in that video it was the "woman." And clearly no provocation was a reasonable explannation for what is in that video.
And I agree with those asking if she was charged. She should have been charge with assault of one both the worker she spat on and the man in line. She also should have been charged with health code violations for spitting in a food service area like that. Attempted contamination of food might carry a serious charge or at least a hefty fine.