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Illinois Man Charged with Desecrating US Flag After Posting Photos on Facebook
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- waterphone 10y ago> Champaign County State's Attorney Julia Rietz said today that the man arrested on July 4 after a flag-burning Facebook post will not be charged. > "The State's Attorney's Office is declining to file charges against (Bryton) Mellott as the act of burning a flag is protected free speech according to the US Supreme Court decision, Texas v. Johnson, 491 US 397 (1989)," Rietz said in a statement. http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-07-05/update-urbana-flag-burner-wont-be-charged.html http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2016-07-05/update-urb...