Why Shiloh Hendrix, the racial slur hurler, may win an appeal to overturn her disorderly conduct conviction

Shiloh Hendrix took the bait — prosecutors took it too far

I don’t love Shiloh Hendrix as a First Amendment martyr. Then again, most First Amendment martyrs aren’t especially lovable.Maybe Hendrix is a great gal in person. I don’t know her. But on April 28, 2025, she was at Roy Sutherland Playground in Rochester, Minnesota, with her toddler when an 8-year-old black boy allegedly took an applesauce pouch from her diaper bag. Hendrix chased him, retrieved the pouch, and, according to witnesses, repeatedly…

Why Shiloh Hendrix, the racial slur hurler, may win an appeal to overturn her disorderly conduct conviction

For words to be criminal, they must not only enrage and abuse but be likely to provoke an immediate violent response.