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Ye Hypocrites, Are These Your Pranks

Charles Oliver | 12.19.2012 6:00 AM


Scottish police say they have arrested a 17-year-old from Aberdeen, who wasn't named in press accounts, for sending a racisttweet to soccer player Jason Brown. The youth allegedly sent the message after Brown's Welsh team beat Scotland in a World Cup qualifier.

Charles Oliver is a contributing editor at Reason.

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