State v. John W.

How courts have described this case

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• holding epithets directed at police officer, as a protest to arrest after officer refused to tell juveniles why they had been pulled over, were constitution ally protected speech
• “We presume that a police officer would not so readily respond violently to conduct of the sort engaged in by John W”
• defendant protested sister’s arrest shouting, “[h]ey turn around and come back here ... [h]ey, you fucking pig, you fuckin’ kangaroo”
• protest of sister's arrest not so egregiously offensive to provoke violent response
• protest of sister’s arrest not so egregiously offensive to provoke violent response

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).