The Facts of R.A.V. v. St. Paul:
Teenagers constructed a crude cross in the backyard of a black family and burned it. The petitioner was charged with violating a St. Paul ordinance which states that anyone using objects such as (but not limited to) a burning cross or Nazi swastika which one "has reasonable grounds to know arouses anger, alarm or resentment in others on the basis of race, color, creed, religion or gender" is guilty of disorderly conduct.

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