• @Sterile_Technique
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    -21 year ago

    Huh. I wonder if any injuries that occured would fall under that. Like if someone yelled fire and you got trampled by a panicked crowd and broke a few bones… would yelling fire in that case be assault?

    Initial post stands - charge his ass! …but now more from curiosity to see what the courts would do with it than anything else.

    • @randon31415
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      111 year ago

      … or yelled “Stop the steal, storm the captial” and someone got trampled to death.

      • @[email protected]
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        11 year ago

        And someone else was shot by law enforcement because they tried to follow those orders. (The fact she wasn’t innocent doesn’t excuse the instigator of her death)

    • @[email protected]
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      -31 year ago

      No, because the words aren’t intended to incite lawless acts.

      But, falsely pulling a fire alarm and saying words are two different things, and he can and should be charged for it.