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Article Source: The First Amendment Center
By Meghan Winston
In Alexandria, Louisiana, federal prosecutors indicted an 18-year old man, Jeremiah Munsen, who drove past a group of Black protesters associated with the Jena 6 controversy with nooses hanging from the back of his pickup truck on federal hate crime and conspiracy charges. According to the prosecutors, the message that Munsen was sending intended to threaten and intimidate protesters. This case forces law officials to scrutinize the ways in which expression can be construed as speech.
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