Quoted: “That kind of intimidation, does the first amendment protect that? The answer is almost certainly, yes it is protected,” Howard Schweber, UW-Madison law school faculty member said. He said, based on reading the police report, what the man said did not raise to the level of a threat. “It’s extraordinarily rude, but the First Amendment protects a lot of ways of speaking that are not very nice,” Schweber said.
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