re: Former Ole Miss student who placed noose on James Meredith statue gets prison

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Defacing public property isn't protected under the first amendment.

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the noose was just removed without any damage to the statue correct? How is that "defacing"? Not a lawyer, but I would think some damage to the statue would have to be involved. How is it different, on a broad scale, from putting flyers on telephone poles? That would be public property as well. Not condoning his actions, but I don't really see any laws that were broken. It's just race related, so