Louisiana "Blue Lives Matter" Law Makes Resisting Arrest a Hate Crime

[JerryArkansas]

What a great rationale. Let's apply this to other hate crime laws as a test. So if I punch a black guy, I guess that makes it a hate crime, regardless of intent.

That's usually how it works in this country anyway.

You really need to stop posting.  It's really making you look bad.

[Green Line]

What a great rationale. Let's apply this to other hate crime laws as a test. So if I punch a black guy, I guess that makes it a hate crime, regardless of intent.

That's usually how it works in this country anyway.

You really need to stop posting.  It's really making you look bad.

Thanks for popping in.  You've sold me.

[publicunofficial]

What a great rationale. Let's apply this to other hate crime laws as a test. So if I punch a black guy, I guess that makes it a hate crime, regardless of intent.

That's usually how it works in this country anyway.

You really need to stop posting.  It's really making you look bad.

Green Line has dug himself into this hole multiple times, and will continue to do so every time we debate police ethics.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

I don't regret endorsing JBE because the other option was a lying adulterer, but I'll remember this for the future. I don't think I'll endorse him for reelection anymore.

[Dr. Arch]

RIP JBE. He'll be destroyed in a primary.

[publicunofficial]

I don't regret endorsing JBE because the other option was a lying adulterer, but I'll remember this for the future. I don't think I'll endorse him for reelection anymore.

So you'll endorse the Republican opponent who very likely would also support this law?

[TDAS04]

Very dumb.  

[Since I'm the mad scientist proclaimed by myself]

I don't regret endorsing JBE because the other option was a lying adulterer, but I'll remember this for the future. I don't think I'll endorse him for reelection anymore.

Suddenly I wish your endorsements matter.

I tried to post this 3 times but each time someone else posted before, thus forcing the new reply warning

[AtorBoltox]

I don't regret endorsing JBE because the other option was a lying adulterer, but I'll remember this for the future. I don't think I'll endorse him for reelection anymore.

Wow, JBE has lost a crucial endorsement, the GOP look like favourites to take back the Governor's mansion now

[RFK Jr.’s Brain Worm]

Very, very, very bad. Why would Edwards do this.

[Cashew]

Very, very, very bad. Why would Edwards do this.

[publicunofficial]

Very, very, very bad. Why would Edwards do this.

It's kinda bad when the best defense of JBE is "Well maybe he didn't have the foresight to realize the law could be abused like this."

[Hindsight was 2020]

Enough crapping on JBE over this it was an innocent mistake. Now Booker having consertive economic views that is what's important

[Frodo]

RIP JBE. He'll be destroyed in a primary.

Yeah, I wonder why he didn't think of that before he signed this monstrosity. Now, we might as well have a Republican governing Louisiana for all the difference it makes. 

[RI]

Given the deliberate targeting of police officers that's occurred lately, the hate crimes expansion was perfectly warranted. If you read the actual text of the bill, it specifically lists the crimes for which a hate crime can be added to the sentence, and resisting arrest is definitely not among them.

[Devout Centrist]

What a great rationale. Let's apply this to other hate crime laws as a test. So if I punch a black guy, I guess that makes it a hate crime, regardless of intent.

That's usually how it works in this country anyway.

Yeah, like with that poor kid in Chicago! No hate there.

[publicunofficial]

Given the deliberate targeting of police officers that's occurred lately, the hate crimes expansion was perfectly warranted. If you read the actual text of the bill, it specifically lists the crimes for which a hate crime can be added to the sentence, and resisting arrest is definitely not among them.

Yeah, not sure why everyone is making a big deal out of this. Edwards wouldn't have signed this law if it were that controversial.

Because that's how politics works! Nothing controversial is EVER signed.

[Frodo]

Given the deliberate targeting of police officers that's occurred lately, the hate crimes expansion was perfectly warranted. If you read the actual text of the bill, it specifically lists the crimes for which a hate crime can be added to the sentence, and resisting arrest is definitely not among them.

And yet apparently open enough to interpretation that a police chief (who is intimately familiar with the new law) could expand the repertoire to include resisting arrest.

[Cashew]

RIP JBE. He'll be destroyed in a primary.

Yeah, I wonder why he didn't think of that before he signed this monstrosity. Now, we might as well have a Republican governing Louisiana for all the difference it makes. 

The people who benefited from Medicaid expansion would disagree with you.

[Frodo]

RIP JBE. He'll be destroyed in a primary.

Yeah, I wonder why he didn't think of that before he signed this monstrosity. Now, we might as well have a Republican governing Louisiana for all the difference it makes. 

The people who benefited from Medicaid expansion would disagree with you.

Security over liberty -I'd hate having to choose between the two if I were them.

[publicunofficial]

Given the deliberate targeting of police officers that's occurred lately, the hate crimes expansion was perfectly warranted. If you read the actual text of the bill, it specifically lists the crimes for which a hate crime can be added to the sentence, and resisting arrest is definitely not among them.

And yet apparently open enough to interpretation that a police chief (who is intimately familiar with the new law) could expand the repertoire to include resisting arrest.

And, according to the same officer, has already done so.

[Dr. Arch]

RIP JBE. He'll be destroyed in a primary.

Yeah, I wonder why he didn't think of that before he signed this monstrosity. Now, we might as well have a Republican governing Louisiana for all the difference it makes. 

The people who benefited from Medicaid expansion would disagree with you.

Security over liberty -I'd hate having to choose between the two if I were them.

[Sumner 1868]

I knew the refugee-baiter would be terrible but I hadn't thought he'd be quite this bad.

Of course, the real point of this law is to discredit all hate crime laws. The fact some of the objections liberal posters have raised sound eerily similar to the arguments rightists make about hate crime laws in general make me think it'll work.

[Intell]

This is stupid, and bad. JBE, probably signed this because of Louisiana politics, he's a great man, that can appeal to working people around this country, but as this bill shows, he's obviously flawed.

[Frodo]

I knew the refugee-baiter would be terrible but I hadn't thought he'd be quite this bad.

Of course, the real point of this law is to discredit all hate crime laws. The fact some of the objections liberal posters have raised sound eerily similar to the arguments rightists make about hate crime laws in general make me think it'll work.

JBE was trapped into signing this law is what you're basically saying?