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UConn students ARRESTED for 'ridiculing' speech in viral video
Jon Street
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Two University of Connecticut students were arrested Monday after video allegedly showed them using racial slurs.
The school confirmed to Campus Reform that the men were charged under a Connecticut statute that makes it a crime to "ridicule" certain people.
"Any person who, by his advertisement, ridicules or holds up to contempt any person or class of persons, on account of the creed, religion, color, denomination, nationality or race of such person or class of persons, shall be guilty of a class D misdemeanor," the statute states.
In a 2018 column for Reason, University of California at Los Angeles law professor Eugene Volokh called the statute under which the men were charged "obviously unconstitutional, because it suppresses speech based on its content (and viewpoint), and because there's no First Amendment exception for speech that insults based on race or religion."
The arrests come less than one month after New York City banned the use of the term, "illegal alien," which is the legal term in the U.S. code for “any person not a citizen or national of the United States.”
https://www.campusreform.org/?ID=13898
