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She said "you're next" very obviously referring to the murder of the United Health CEO. If that's not a direct that, I don't know what is.
The supreme court has defined legally actionable threats extremely narrowly. Yeah that's a pretty direct threat, but I don't think it meets the legal standard of a "true threat"
In NAACP v. Claiborne Hardware Co. The Supreme Court ruled someone saying "If we catch any of you going into these racist stores, we're going to break your damn neck." was protected speech.
That's more direct than her threat.
There's an insanely high standard for convicting someone over a threat.
Sure but did someone actually break someone's neck a few days before? I think context is also important.
Btw, I'm playing devil's advocate here. I don't think this woman should've been arrested. Her threat was obviously empty.
For the 'true threat' standard, it doesn't matter since she had no connection to the shooting.
Not broken necks, but from the Wikipedia page: "In at least 10 instances, individuals who violated the boycott experienced instances of violence, including shots fired into their homes, bricks thrown through their windshields, and tires on their cars slashed."