This article didn't cover how the man also threatened to chock the mother to death with a tow chain in front of her three children (the three kids witnessed the threats). Since it ties in to the disabled girl, mocking her and threatening her family, they were able to pursue criminal charges.
I like what the justice system is doing here. Basically this guy is getting sent away to be prison raped until he walks like a person with cerebral palsy.
Actually Amazinggrce. You need to study the constitution past the 8th grade. Short of yelling fire in a crowded theater? Have you ever heard of libel? How about slander? Disruption in public facilities, (i.e. Bethel School District v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986)) ,verbal abuse, threats and verbal battery? Any of these ringing any bells? All of them illegal. This guy was bullying a child. He doesn't have to take a swing at her to make it against the law. However, I do agree with the constitution huggers on one issue with this. Lets keep government out of this case. I mean, COMPLETELY. Lets have the cops and courts turn a blind eye while we find out this guys name and address and all have a go at him in the street at that bus stop. Oh but I'm sure that the same big government that you don't want to prosecute him, should also be the same big government that protects this guy from some good old fashioned vigilante justice.
Yes this guy was a jerk. But there would have been better ways to deal with this. In Ohio, it costs THE TAXPAYERS approximately $98 a day to keep a person in jail. So 30 days in the slammer are costing the taxpayers of Ohio roughly three grand and it's costing said jerk a month's wages (and possibly his job in the long run, so then he's on public services and costing the citizens even more). I think, if we insist that it's not against the constitution to prosecute this guy in the first place (and I'm not sure it was constitutional), community service - perhaps working with the disabled - might have been a better option. We have way too many non-violent offenders clogging up our courts and jails.
Somehow we have allowed ourselves to believe that exercise of "free speech" includes the right to say anything one dam' pleases and not have to suffer consequences. All "freedoms" come with an implicit responsibility to act with consideration for others. If we have become so desensitised to the feelings of those around us then maybe it's time to make that implicit responsibility EXplicit.
So in your opinion there is no free speech unless you approve of what the person has to say.
Yeah he was/is a jerk but other than yelling "Fire" in a crowded place, even the courts have upheld free speech. This is a judge police dept and DA on a power trip.
In decades past the man himself would have been publically mocked but putting him in jail is simply nothing less than unconstitutional and unlawful detention.
It is TIME for people like you to re-learn the constitution and some US history. Such behavior can and should be corrected without the law or courts being involved. Next stop will be the party in power jailing anyone who opposes them.
Actually Amazinggrce. You need to study the constitution past the 8th grade. Short of yelling fire in a crowded theater? Have you ever heard of libel? How about slander? Disruption in public facilities, (i.e. Bethel School District v. Fraser, 478 U.S. 675 (1986)) ,verbal abuse, threats and verbal battery? Any of these ringing any bells? All of them illegal. This guy was bullying a child. He doesn't have to take a swing at her to make it against the law. However, I do agree with the constitution huggers on one issue with this. Lets keep government out of this case. I mean, COMPLETELY. Lets have the cops and courts turn a blind eye while we find out this guys name and address and all have a go at him in the street at that bus stop. Oh but I'm sure that the same big government that you don't want to prosecute him, should also be the same big government that protects this guy from some good old fashioned vigilante justice.
It seems apparent that there's more history to the story than the video and that's where the criminal charges stem. However, I glad. Imagine a grown man mocking a child in front of his own child. There's more bad luck coming his way. Thirty days and $400 may turn out to be the easy part.
I did read the story. I probably wouldn't have sent him to jail. I would have sent him out to work his fanny off serving the less fortunate in the hopes that he would learn some empathy.
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Yeah he was/is a jerk but other than yelling "Fire" in a crowded place, even the courts have upheld free speech. This is a judge police dept and DA on a power trip.
In decades past the man himself would have been publically mocked but putting him in jail is simply nothing less than unconstitutional and unlawful detention.
It is TIME for people like you to re-learn the constitution and some US history. Such behavior can and should be corrected without the law or courts being involved. Next stop will be the party in power jailing anyone who opposes them.
Next time read the comment correctly.