Coeur d'Alene city attorney: Racial slurs lobbed at UofU players was free speech

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An 18-year-old who reportedly admitted to shouting racist slurs at the University of Utah women's basketball team in Idaho will not be charged.

Police have released security and body camera footage following a reported racial incident in Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, targeting the University of Utah women's basketball team. at the University of Utah women's basketball team while they both arrived and left a Coeur d'Alene restaurant in March will not be charged.

Detectives with Coeur d'Alene Police Department were able to obtain recordings that corroborated a portion of the women's claims.In an April 9 statement, CDAPD said they "identified an audio recording where the use of a racial slur was clearly audible," and that it could be heard being shouted "more than once."

The CDA Police Department’s subsequent exhaustive investigation determined the identities of the four occupantsand, ultimately, confirmed that one of the individuals in that vehicle, Anthony Richard Myers, an 18-year-old student at Post Falls High School, made the offensive statement containing the racial slur, to which he subsequently confessed during interviews with law enforcement. The investigation also established that Mr.

 

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