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Backlash Erupts Over What 'Controversial' Councilman Just Told People to Start Throwing at Police
By Parker Lee
 

A Mississippi councilman has sparked community and state-wide backlash following a suggestion on how citizens should treat police who enter his community.

WJTV reports that Jackson Councilman Kenneth Stokes - who is said to be known for his “bold and often controversial statements” - made the comments in reference to a number of high-speed chases that have led police though the area.

Concerning officers engaged in high-speed chases that enter Jackson from other jurisdictions, Stokes reportedly suggested throwing at police:

    “Bricks, rocks and bottles...”

http://ijr.com/2016/01/506437-backlash-erupts-over-what-controversial-councilman-just-told-people-to-start-throwing-at-police/
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That isn't hate speech, I guess. :shrug:

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18 U.S. Code § 2101
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2101

(a) Whoever travels in interstate or foreign commerce or uses any facility of interstate or foreign commerce, including, but not limited to, the mail, telegraph, telephone, radio, or television, with intent—
(1) to incite a riot; or
(2) to organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot; or
(3) to commit any act of violence in furtherance of a riot; or
(4) to aid or abet any person in inciting or participating in or carrying on a riot or committing any act of violence in furtherance of a riot;
and who either during the course of any such travel or use or thereafter performs or attempts to perform any other overt act for any purpose specified in subparagraph (A), (B), (C), or (D) of this paragraph— [1]
Shall be fined under this title, or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

18 U.S. Code § 2102
(a) As used in this chapter, the term “riot” means a public disturbance involving (1) an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual or (2) a threat or threats of the commission of an act or acts of violence by one or more persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons having, individually or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of such threat or threats, where the performance of the threatened act or acts of violence would constitute a clear and present danger of, or would result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or to the person of any other individual.
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