http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/09/nopd_hate_crime_blue_lives_mat.html
It was later retracted:
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/09/man_accused_under_blue_lives_m.html
But the fact that it happened at all is problematic.
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'Blue lives matter' law used in arrest of New Orleans man who shouted slurs at police
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http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/09/nopd_hate_crime_blue_lives_mat.html
It was later retracted:
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/09/man_accused_under_blue_lives_m.html
But the fact that it happened at all is problematic.
Night Angel
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So the police are a protected group now? Yikes.
Familienoberhauptvogel
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hate crime against police... let that sink in for a moment. Hate crime!
excelsiorlef
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What was the slur lol?
Angelus Errare
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More protected than actual minorities. You can call a black person "nigger", a Indian-American "towel head/sand nigger" and not get arrested. Call the cops a "slur" and you get arrested?
Some bullshit of the highest order.
Fuck the police, the most thin skinned whiny bunch of hypocritical bitches next to republicans.
It goes along perfectly with their absolute authority, no accountability, police state, institution.
EatinOlives
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Black Lives Matter movement started to call into question the dubious amount of protection police get after incidents following racial profiling/racism.
Only legislation to come out of it is...a Blue Lives Matter provision. Giving the police even more protection.
Why is this country so fucked up?
Only legislation to come out of it is...a Blue Lives Matter provision. Giving the police even more protection.
Why is this country so fucked up?
Who needs more protection than the guys with fucking weapons strapped to their belt?
hydrophilic attack
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ACAB
pls dont prosecute me
pls dont prosecute me
Police officer
excelsiorlef
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Lol ok so he used sexist and racist slurs against it seems mostly a waitress but the cops decided the real hate was against them... awesome
Yekshemesh
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Police dogs have more rights than minorities here. BUT YOU BETTER STAND UP FOR THAT FLAG DAMNIT!!!
DontBeThatGuy
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This shit better stay in Louisiana.
Doesn't this kind of make hate crimes pointless? Isn't the whole purpose of hate crimes to help prevent crimes towards people without much power?
Police are power. They are absolutely God in this country make no mistake about it. You must do what they say at all times or be arrested or worse.
Everyday I hate police more and more. No not every officer that exists just trying to make a living, but the whole system is fucked up and needs to be remade.
Police are power. They are absolutely God in this country make no mistake about it. You must do what they say at all times or be arrested or worse.
Everyday I hate police more and more. No not every officer that exists just trying to make a living, but the whole system is fucked up and needs to be remade.
hydrophilic attack
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what is the punishment for insulting a gaf mod
Yes.
The Technomancer
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oh my god
Mental Atrophy
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There are already laws in most states for things like assaulting a police officer. No need for another layer that puts restrictions on somebody's first amendment rights.
Do it and find out. Amirox is a ________.
hydrophilic attack
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Mandrake Air serves rotten food
EricTheRed
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The police are and will always be no more than 'the biggest gang in town' to me.
And that's coming from someone who is English, I dread to think how awful they can be in America.
And that's coming from someone who is English, I dread to think how awful they can be in America.
DontBeThatGuy
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In Louisiana, yes, and surprisingly enough, it's a democrat who signed the bill into law.
Southern Democrat.
You ain't getting rid of your tag that easy.
Chie Satonaka
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Is that really an insult? Isn't that just common knowledge?
hydrophilic attack
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they should make tagged posters a protected class
uncelestial
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What do you mean "now?" Putting what is already widely in practice into law was barely a step.
Sigh. We've still got so much work to do before police culture changes.
DontBeThatGuy
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All of the bullets, but anything from Body Count and tanks will start showing up.
V
Vilix
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Hate hosiery is worst hosiery.
IrishNinja
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jesus christ, that's some louisiana level backward-ass thinking there
heliosRAzi
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The First Amendment literally protects against that.
Hale-XF11
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Why did I have to scroll so far down to see this comment?
Yelling slurs at cops is a protected right. End of argument.
Regulus Tera
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What is the First Amendment?
A Link to the Past
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I bet all of those people who hate the government are very happy that a government organization has the power to punish people for criticizing them
theignoramus
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I thought cops who wanted to arrest you for mouthing off just hit you up with that disorderly conduct citation?
The #bluelivesmatter bill is over the top & will probably end up being challenged in the nation's highest courts.
The #bluelivesmatter bill is over the top & will probably end up being challenged in the nation's highest courts.
heliosRAzi
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Cops take an oath to uphold the Constitution, generally, and these cops are literally breaking it. There's not even gray area around it. They violated his rights by charging him with that "hate" crime.
It's fucking mind boggling
Night Angel
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