Posted on 02/13/2016 11:59:58 AM PST by lowbridge
"We had somebody that was offended by the gestures you were making," the officer told the preacher, who captured the conversation on cellphone video posted to YouTube Tuesday. "And that's our job is to make sure that doesn't happen, because these are students just walking in this mall right here."
The university police officer acknowledged the preacher wasn't technically on campus, but he was writing him up anyway since students were walking nearby: "So the job here is to write you up as a citation, disorderly conduct, for offending someone," the officer said.
When the preacher asked if freedom of speech protects offensive speech, the officer replied, "It doesn't matter, freedom of speech. Someone was offended - that's against the law."
Not quite believing what he was hearing, he asked again if it was against the law to offend somebody.
"Yes," said the officer.
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A hyper-aggressive hand wave, devastating to the psyche!
*wincing*
Another possibility.
Exactly. These universities need to be taught there is a painful financial price to be paid for them running roughshod over constitutional freedoms.
Yes, sounds like it.
According to an update, the ticket was indeed dismissed.
Yes, I went back and read the update. The ticket was rescinded and the officers will receive ‘training’. ;-)
He was absent the day they taught First Amendment rights.
Where was this?
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The liberal a**hole of Texas... Austin and the U of TX.
It should be widely published, and reiterated to students that they have DO NOT HAVE A RIGHT to *not* be offended by the free speech of others, and that efforts to shut down the free speech of others will be seriously punished. This includes any effort to disrupt a faculty or guest lecture or speech invited to be given on campus.
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Excellent! You’ve got my vote!
If offending people was against the law, I’d be serving multiple life sentences and giggling all the while.
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