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Chico State University Employee Pleads Guilty of Hate Crime in Potential Violent Speech Case

JonathanTurley

Indeed, professors have been making analogous statements for years without investigation, let alone criminal charges. Officials then moved under “Red Flag” laws to seize four rifles and three handguns. That would seem to convert the hate crime law into a hate speech law. Yet, he pleaded guilty to a hate crime.

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Wayne State Professor Suspended After Declaring that it is “More Admirable” to Shoot Down than Shout Down Conservative Speakers

JonathanTurley

The most analogous case is that of University of Rhode Island professor Erik Loomis, who defended the murder of a conservative protester and said that he saw “nothing wrong” with such acts of violence. Yet, those extreme statements from the left are rarely subject to cancel campaigns or university actions.