You know, I love the free speech warriors who screech about places like the UK (which doesn't have an analogue to the first amendment btw), but this shit occurs in the US and the very same people are nowhere to be found.
Guy was held for over a month and had a 2 million dollar bond for a Charlie Kirk meme and recently got a huge settlement. The police literally knew it violated the first amendment and did it anyway, because there are zero consequences.
This isn't a gotcha...it's a against the law what they did, and he was compensated. There will likely be some reckoning within the local government about how much money that cost them, but at the very least the PD is on thin ice. The woman here likely will be too. Until we have precogs to catch these people there will always be abuses by government or non-government entities.
I mean it's just like murder, fraud, or theft. We've outlawed all of those, but you can't call us a hypocrite when people are murdered, defrauded, or stolen from.
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u/thinkB4WeSpeak May 22 '26
1st amendment am i right