A US man acquitted of battery charges after spit juicing on Phelps daughter

A US man has been acquitted of battery charges after spitting tobacco juice at the 53 year-old daughter of gay-hating pastor Fred Phelps.
Billy Spade, from West Virginia, admits to spitting on a sign carried by Shirley Phelps-Roper during an emotionally-charged picket of dead miners in Charleston – but denied spitting on her person.
The demonstration, organised by the Westboro Baptist Church, followed the death of twenty-nine miners during a catastrophic explosion at Massey Energy's Upper Big Branch Coal Mine in April 2010.
There, Phelps-Roper held a sign which read: 'Thank God for Dead Miners'.
According to her, the deaths were God's punishment for the world's increasingly-relaxed views on homosexuality.
The jury, ruling in less than an hour, said Spade committed no crime, considering the highly-charged events of the day.

Peter Lloyd

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