Actress Cindy Lee Garcia sues over Innocence of Muslims

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4. Actually, both are examples of deliberate, malicious acts resulting in endangerment.

You only need to assume that an action is LIKELY lead to a potentially harmful situation to know that it would be a really bad idea. Courts are there to fine-tune the meanings of "likely" and "harmful", as always.

Responsibility is not a conserved quantity. The people who commited the violence are guilty of commiting violence. The person who provoked the violence is guilty of provoking violence. There is more than enough guilt and stupidity to go around.

In this case, the film served no purpose other than deliberate insult and provocation. And the plaintiff is also suing over harm to her reputation, for which she would have a valid case even if there had been no violence at all.

The key word (often omitted) in the Holmes quote is FALSELY. Nothing culpable about YFIACT if the theater really is on fire, or you mistakenly believe it is on fire. The producer/director of this film was just making up shit, kicking over beehives just to watch what happened. Ultimately, it's the beekeepers who will decide if that's excusable for the sake of ... um, whatever it was he was trying to prove.