If we're not supposed to condemn the jerks that made the anti-islam movie

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126. In a wrongful death suit:

Generally, punitive damages are not awarded for mere, or even gross, negligence; rather, they are awarded only where conduct is willful or wanton, or shows a conscious disregard for the consequences.

If he was warned of by those with a comprehensive understanding of the situation that violence would likely result, and he did it, that shows a conscious disregard for the consequences.

He had reasonable expectation of violence - not to himself, because he was not present - but to those that would be viewed as his surrogates - other Americans. He proceeded. He wanted to show that Muslims are violent people, and he did what he could to bring out that in an area that he was warned had a population that may react violently.

His response afterwords supports that he thinks Muslims will react that way to criticism of Islam.

I think that the families of the deceased can make a case.