• Professor of Justice and Community Studies & Political Science, Miami University
Up to 500,000 people across the U.S., including children, received offensive, anonymous text messages in the days after the election. Nolwen Cifuentes/fStop via Getty Images

Threatening texts targeting minorities after election were vile − but they might not be illegal

The First Amendment might complicate plans to prosecute the people who sent up to 500,000 anonymous messages in November calling Black people ‘slaves,’ among other hate speech.

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