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The Shiloh Hendrix Verdict

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Shiloh Hendrix has been found guilty of disorderly conduct against the adult guy who was following her around taping her. She has been found not guilty against the “disabled Somalian child.”

Given that the entirety of her “conduct” was limited to saying words, I believe she has a First Amendment appeal.

This is not bad news. If the Supreme Court eventually takes on the case and gives us a definitive ruling on words being constitutionally protected, that’s a win. It’s bizarre that all of this effort is needed to prove such an obvious thing, but that’s where we are.

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    Anonymous

    I honestly want the outcome of that case/appeal to be rules about filming other people’s kids in public places, particularly if you then post the footage publicly. Hard time caring about vulgar people: if anybody in authority cared about vulgar behavior in public, they’d be arresting ghetto mamas screaming at each other, at the playground, as well as the schizos muttering obscenities at the public library, and the addicts shooting up on the sidewalk: all our public spaces would be much more pleasant! If they enforced on everybody equally, I’d have no problem with Shiloh getting a citation for disorderly. But it probably wouldn’t ever have happened, because the illegal sex offender wouldn’t have been on the playground to begin with.

    HOWEVER: filming other people’s children on playgrounds and posting the footage on the internet is never OK. How is it we have rules about saying Mean Words to creeps on playgrounds, but not about filming other people’s kids without permission?

    ethyl

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      Anonymous

      Like seriously: why are we protecting the rights of convicted sex offenders to film children at public playgrounds, and why isn’t that the bigger part of this story?

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      Clarissa

      YES. I become nervous whenever somebody takes out their phone on the playground. I have no idea if they’re filming or not. Sometimes there is a solitary adult lurking around the playground with a phone. It’s weird and disturbing.

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        Anonymous

        I would go even further and say: if it’s just a playground, and not a walking park or other mixed-use feature, then there shouldn’t be any adults permitted there unless accompanied by a child. I have gathered up my kids and left playgrounds abruptly more than once after some creepy adult childless man decided to just hang around with his phone.

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          Clarissa

          We already have a rule like that at a local public library, and I support it completely. Adults who are not accompanying any children are not allowed in the children’s section. The children’s section occupies a whole floor of its own, and whenever an unaccompanied adult wanders in, he is firmly asked to remove himself. Parents don’t bring children into bars or dance clubs, and similarly, non-parents should not be lurking in children’s spaces.

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