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

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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?