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annabanana

(52,791 posts) Wed May 25, 2016, 09:02 AM May 2016

Louisiana Poised To Expand Hate-Crime Law To Protect Police

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/24/479380240/louisiana-poised-to-expand-hate-crime-law-to-protect-police

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Protected classes in the state's current hate-crime legislation are: race, age, gender, religion, color, creed, disability, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry and organizational affiliation.

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a) "Organizational affiliation" is already there and
b) I always thought the immutable things were better suited to these protections. Things "born in"...

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Louisiana Poised To Expand Hate-Crime Law To Protect Police (Original Post) annabanana May 2016 OP

Penalties are already increased for TexasMommaWithAHat May 2016 #1

TexasMommaWithAHat

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1. Penalties are already increased for

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Wed May 25, 2016, 09:23 AM

May 2016

murdering or attempted murder of a law officer.

The only crime where this might justifiably apply, imo, would be an outright assassination of an officer - like the two police officers who were fatally shot while sitting in their car in Brooklyn a few years ago. Still, what difference would it make in the sentencing phase? Life in prison is life in prison.

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