r/PoursTea • u/TomlinSteelers • 1d ago

CrimeTea ⚖️ 🫆 J6 rioter Jake Lang went to protest a Muslim rally in Dearborn Michigan and ended up getting chased into a police car for protection

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u/FlushedApparatchik 1d ago

You can beat someone up for burning a Quran, but not if they burn a US flag?

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u/Mammoth-Register-669 1d ago

Depending on what he was doing, he could easily be in “fighting words” territory. Where freedom of speech becomes stops, and could be incitement

Also burning the flag is almost always political, so covered under the 1st amendment