gmcgath on Nostr: Ground News headline: "N.J. man arrested, charged with issuing threats, racial slurs ...
Ground News headline: "N.J. man arrested, charged with issuing threats, racial slurs on Miami-Newark flight." Issuing racial slurs is not a crime in the US, and as far as I can tell no one brought a bogus charge of that kind, but some news outlets want us to absorb the fiction that there are speech crimes and they get prosecuted.
#fakeNews
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2025-02-12 15:22:00 UTCEvent JSON
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