Carl in Michigan
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Being old doesnt give you the right to be nasty and rude.saying that word by an OLD white man to a young black man does not qualify as fighting words.Fighting words are, as first defined by the Supreme Court (SCOTUS) in Chaplinsky v New Hampshire, 315 U.S. 568 (1942), words which "by their very utterance, inflict injury or tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace. ... Fighting words are a category of speech that is unprotected by the First Amendment
To be honest, the guy earned the punch. People need to understand what a simple punch can lead to. The old guy should have watched his words