Kentucky bill would make it a crime to insult police officers
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As an Ex-Leo, I completly disagree with this bill. LEOs don't need more bills to protect them. They need a command staff and a city/county council that will stand behind them. They need leaders that won't tie their hands from doing their jobs. Shit, if they want to arrest someone for insulting them, all they have to do is cite "disorderly conduct" (if the insults are being yelled in a public place) .
“a crime to insult or taunt a police officer to the point where the taunts provoke a violent response.” Talk about over reach. These days it seems everything is an insult. I’m wondering if this is about taking away free speech or about giving police officers a free pass for violent responses?
Worse, there is no objective measure of what taunts are needed for this escalation. If an officer is a violent sociopath that commonly attacks people with little warning, then this law gives cover to this criminal-in-uniform by making the people he attacks the offenders.
Constitutional failings aside, it is an idiotic thing to empower violent police even more and in doing so, reward and add incentives for more violence.
That’s blatantly unconstitutional
It is not a good move imho, especially given how we have seen the way some individuals within the police have used their positions either politically and or abusively....!
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What do you think about this bill guys?
Restricting first amendment rights. Hate it.
You would honestly think this was already a law in KY the way some of the officers I have encountered act.... It always has been and always will be a police training issue... They simply do not receive enough training before they hit patrol.
Sounds like a bill antithetical to our cause. Something the DS would enact to enable their blackshirts to arrest anyone without cause.
Let’s not forget our Governor is a Dem... go figure
This "crime" is about police impunity and about giving pretext to attack the citizen who did nothing illegal. You shall resist this law.
We have such law in Poland (don't believe my country is conservative paradise - it is in fact NOT,it is in many things socialist hellhole), I PERFECTLY know what I am writing here ! We have such law,it is abused. With judge believing first and foremost to police (and with no juries,we have no juries so even if you think jury institution is compromised - it can be worse) it is perfect tool for making arbitrary arrests.
If those officers will not have camera working then it is matter of time they would accuse you of insulting police even because recording policeman breaking the law.
That's fucking stupid.