An 18-year-old man recorded on surveillance video shouting a racist slur toward the University of Utah women's basketball team during the first round of the 2024 NCAA tournament will not be criminally charged, Alex Vejar reported for the Salt Lake Tribune.
Attorneys for the city of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, decided on May 3 not to prosecute the man, a student at a Coeur d'Alene high school, "based on a lack of probable cause and the potential violation of his constitutional right to free speech," Vejar reported.
According to charging decision documents, the man admitted to "shouting the N-word and a sexually explicit comment from a car as the Utes players walked nearby," per Vejar.