City of Chicago v. Blakemore

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• absent evidence of overt acts by defendant, offensive language addressed to police officer does not cause a breach of peace even when bystanders are present
• absent evidence of overt acts by defendant, offensive language addressed to police officer does not cause a breach of peace even when bystanders are present
• “[W]ords addressed to an officer in an insolent manner do not without any other overt act tend to breach the peace because it is the sworn duty and obligation of the officer not to breach the peace and beyond this to conduct himself so as to keep others from so doing”
• \[W]ords addressed to an officer in an insolent manner do not without any other overt act tend to breach the peace because it is the sworn duty and obligation of the officer not to breach the peace and beyond this to conduct himself so as to keep others from so doing\

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).