[jimtorr]

Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416, which reads in pertinent part:

“If any person shall, in the presence or hearing of another, curse or abuse such other person, or use any violent abusive language to such person concerning himself or any of his relations, or otherwise use such language, under circumstances reasonably calculated to provoke a breach of the peace, he shall be guilty of a Class 3 misdemeanor.”

[Bob434]

but yet Westboro ‘baptist church’ can go there and scream at soldiers because the SC said they could-

[mass55th]

“If any person shall, in the presence or hearing of another, curse or abuse such other person, or use any violent abusive language to such person concerning himself or any of his relations... "

He should have called her a name in another language. She wouldn't have known what the hell he was talking about.

[traderrob6]

“Bartow was charged under Virginia Code § 18.2-416....”

A brazenly unconstitutional statute.

[kaehurowing]

Thanks for the info. I guess it’s the “fighting words” exception to the First Am.