CdA prosecutor: No charges in racial incident involving Utah basketball team
Tony Stewart, secretary of the Kootenai County Task Force on Human Relations, addresses the media on March 26 during a press conference to address a reported racial incident in downtown Coeur d'Alene on March 21.
BILL BULEY/Press file
COEUR d'ALENE — There will not be criminal charges filed in connection to a reported racial incident that received national attention in March, according to the city's chief deputy city attorney on Monday.
"In short, I cannot find probable cause that Anthony Myers’s conduct — shouting out of a moving vehicle at a group of people — constituted either Disturbing the Peace under state law or Disorderly Conduct under the CDA Municipal Code. Instead, what has been clear from the very outset of this incident is that it was not when or where or how Mr. Myers made the grotesque racial statement that caused the justifiable outrage in this case; it was the grotesque racial statement itself," wrote Ryan S. Hunter in a complaint review charging decision dated May 3.
A March 21 racial incident was reported in downtown Coeur d’Alene involving the University of Utah's women's basketball team and others with them. People in trucks reportedly revved engines and shouted racial slurs at the group after they visited a Sherman Avenue restaurant.
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