Iowa City business owner arrested after asking customer: 'Are you a terrorist?'

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2. Should he have been charged?

Now he is a martyr. The customer should have pulled out his phone, and put it on Youtube. I don't think Cermak would do very well in Iowa City after that.

Here is the statute -

b. A person commits harassment when the person, purposefully and without legitimate purpose, has personal contact with another person, with the intent to threaten, intimidate, or alarm that other person. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, “personal contact” means an encounter in which two or more people are in visual or physical proximity to each other. “Personal contact” does not require a physical touching or oral communication, although it may include these types of contacts.