Republican ‘Blue Lives Matter’ Bill Will Turn Crimes Against Cops Into Hate Crimes In Louisiana

[Purveyor]

A Louisiana Republican is sponsoring legislation dubbed the “Blue Lives Matter” bill that would make crimes against police officers hate crimes, Jezebel reports.

The bill, HB 953, will be considered by the Louisiana state senate this week and was sponsored by Rep. Lance Harris. Jezebel reports Harris believes the bill is necessary in the wake of the shooting death of Dan Goforth, sheriff’s deputy who was killed at a gas station in Houston, Texas.

The man accused of killing him, Shannon Miles, has been found mentally incompetent to stand trial and is schizophrenic, KTRK reported. No motivation has yet been determined, aside from untreated mental illness.

The bill has already sailed through the state House and Senate Judiciary Committee and will land on the desk of Gov. John Bel Edwards, who the Times Picayune predicts will sign it into law. But as the paper points out, doing so would create uncharted territory for hate crime legislation, which covers crimes motivated by immutable traits like race, gender, religion, ethnicity, sexual orientation, nationality or disability.

Hate crime laws do not cover a victim’s occupation.

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[moonbabygo]

1. good nt

[MrScorpio]

2. Sure...

Let's give cops an even greater sense of entitlement than they already have.

[Yavin4]

3. If someone kills a cop, there's a good chance that they will be prosecuted for the crime.

If a cop kills someone, there's a good chance that the cop won't even be prosecuted for the crime. The solution to the problem is to appoint special prosecutors to prosecute the police involved in a killing. There's too much of a conflict of interest to allow the DA to prosecute the cop.