Freedom of What Now?

We missed this yesterday in the "Nice Bail Evans" post:

• “Besides the fact that there is language used that most would consider to be bad, there were no threats,” [defense attorney] Saken told Judge David Navarro.
  
  Prosecutors said [asshole] Baylock has no adult criminal background, but noted he had been charged with unlawful use of a weapon twice in 2015. Both cases were heard in Cook County Juvenile Court.
  
  Saken said Baylock turned himself in to police Thursday afternoon and asked Judge Navarro to release Baylock on a personal recognizance bond.
  
  “There is the possibility of an argument for free speech,” Navarro said, before noting that the guns wouldn’t have to be real for Baylock to be charged with threatening the officer. And, Baylock had faced charges in the past for incidents that did involve “real guns,” Navarro said.

Freedom of speech? While being armed with guns? Threatening to follow an officer, shoot the officer, kill the officer?

Pardon our skepticism, but those sound vaguely like "acts of furtherance in the commission of a crime." We're going to have to try this on a judge and see how it plays out the day after we retire.