1. Obviously it's a prank.
2. It's protected speech under the First Amendment.
3. It's not vandalism. Placing a sticker that can easily be removed and leaves behind no mess is not vandalism. Placing a sticker that is designed to leave a mess, like those "do not park here" stickers that every business uses, is actual vandalism because it does mess up property.
4. If it had been a smiley face sticker or a coexist sticker, the police would not be trying to arrest the person(s) responsible. Calling something vandalism solely because you are trying to silence political speech, no matter how repugnant that political speech is, is malicious prosecution and would be false arrest. Such crimes should not be tolerated.
5. Even if the prosecutors don't press charges or the police don't request charges, tracking down the person(s) responsible just to publicly shame them is a violation of free speech if any public funding or state power is used to do so.
6. At worst, this prank is a civil matter.
7. People should just take the giant stick out of their asses and accept that teens and kids will make socially inappropriate and derogatory jokes. Throwing a fit over that is just plain stupid.
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1. Obviously it's a prank.
2. It's protected speech under the First Amendment.
3. It's not vandalism. Placing a sticker that can easily be removed and leaves behind no mess is not vandalism. Placing a sticker that is designed to leave a mess, like those "do not park here" stickers that every business uses, is actual vandalism because it does mess up property.
4. If it had been a smiley face sticker or a coexist sticker, the police would not be trying to arrest the person(s) responsible. Calling something vandalism solely because you are trying to silence political speech, no matter how repugnant that political speech is, is malicious prosecution and would be false arrest. Such crimes should not be tolerated.
5. Even if the prosecutors don't press charges or the police don't request charges, tracking down the person(s) responsible just to publicly shame them is a violation of free speech if any public funding or state power is used to do so.
6. At worst, this prank is a civil matter.
7. People should just take the giant stick out of their asses and accept that teens and kids will make socially inappropriate and derogatory jokes. Throwing a fit over that is just plain stupid.
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