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Re:Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack by krapp on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:15PM (#17147920)
>Does a cop have a corresponding First Amendment right to call everyone a n-word while out on patrol?

Unfortunately, yes.

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Re:Three Charged in Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack by krapp on Thursday May 24, 2018 @04:51PM (#17148292)
To be fair, none of these demonstrate that racist remarks aren't protected by the First Amendment, only that employers and society can exact negative consequences for such speech, which is fair, since freedom of speech goes both ways.

As far as I know, racist speech is protected so long as it doesn't provoke violence against specific individuals ("fighting words.") Although IANAL and I'm willing to concede that I might be entirely wrong, and I don't want to go to the mat for racists anyway.

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