University of Connecticut Student narrowly avoids jail for using the N-word
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Is that not supression of free speech? I'd sue the judge, the city, the county, the state and the school.
He was walking with friends in an empty parking lot and yelled, ”Nigger!”
He did not direct the name at any individual. There were none present. He was videotaped by someone on an upper floor of a nearby dorm.
He was guilty of being stupid, crude, even vulgar. In other words, a typical immature college kid acting like a fool with friends after a night of partying.
Oh, and he was doing so while being white.
That last line is the real problem - if he'd just had a tan, he would've been ignored for this same behavior, even if his tan turned out to be Arab, Indian or Polynesian flavored, it doesn't matter as long as it's tan.
1st amendment is often at odds with "harassment".
In California (I believe this is true) your words alone cannot reach the level of harassment. This allows people to be accosted at restaurants, gas stations, shopping places, and even their homes, as Maxine Waters said.
No one does this in NY for this reason:
" When someone applies physical force to another person, follows that person around in public places or engages in conduct intended to alarm or seriously annoy the person, this constitutes second-degree harassment. As in all harassment cases, the defendant must have the intent to harass, annoy or alarm the person, and the course of conduct can have no legitimate purpose. Second-degree harassment is a violation, and the maximum punishment is 15 days in jail. "
As I read CT law, if they had yelled AT a person, they might have been in more trouble.
Sounds more like he's being sent to reeducation camp for wrong-think, just for being obnoxious in public. Would the same rules apply to a black man shouting "cracker" in a parking lot? We no longer have equal protection under the law. Some would call this "systemic racism."
A long time ago, the very first person arrested under a hate crime law was a black cashier who berated a white customer.
I'm positive that wasn't what they had in mind..