18 U.S.C. § 2102 : US Code - Section 2102: Definitions

Search 18 U.S.C. § 2102 : US Code - Section 2102: Definitions

(a) As used in this chapter, the term "riot" means a public
disturbance involving (1) an act or acts of violence by one or more
persons part of an assemblage of three or more persons, which act
or acts shall constitute a clear and present danger of, or shall
result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or
to the person of any other individual or (2) a threat or threats of
the commission of an act or acts of violence by one or more persons
part of an assemblage of three or more persons having, individually
or collectively, the ability of immediate execution of such threat
or threats, where the performance of the threatened act or acts of
violence would constitute a clear and present danger of, or would
result in, damage or injury to the property of any other person or
to the person of any other individual.
(b) As used in this chapter, the term "to incite a riot", or "to
organize, promote, encourage, participate in, or carry on a riot",
includes, but is not limited to, urging or instigating other
persons to riot, but shall not be deemed to mean the mere oral or
written (1) advocacy of ideas or (2) expression of belief, not
involving advocacy of any act or acts of violence or assertion of
the rightness of, or the right to commit, any such act or acts.