FIRE and ICE: Free speech group defends violent flyers at Penn State

(The Center Square) – A second anti-ICE flyer discovered on Penn State’s campus has brought bipartisan agreement among student groups, even as a national free-speech watchdog warns the university’s prior response risks violating the First Amendment.

The latest flyer follows a Jan. 29 incident in which one depicting an ICE agent hanging from a noose, with the words, “DEAD ICE AGENTS CAN’T KILL,” appeared on a pole outside Penn State’s primary student union building, the HUB-Robeson Center.

Images of the flyer circulated online, accompanied by calls to identify and punish those responsible.

Penn State condemned it and announced an investigation, however, the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, FIRE, argues that while the images and messages are offensive to many, it does not fall into one of the narrow categories of unprotected speech – especially at a public university.

On Feb. 5, FIRE sent Penn State a Read Entire Article