OT Republican Senate Passes Police Insult Bill

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  1. Chris Craig

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    https://www.yahoo.com/news/kentucky...-that-outlaws-insulting-police-205756830.html

    The Republican led Kentucky Senate passed a bill making it illegal to insult police officers. Republican senators say it is meant to allow officers to protect themselves if protestors hurl insults at them. It will now go to the republican led Kentucky House and be passed.

    This bill is an attack on free speech and a tool to allow officers to beat up protestors and arrest them easier. Ridiculous.
     
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    Natebishop3 Don't tread on me!

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    Welp, that's gonna get struck down. No question at all.
     
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    bulls_with_booz We're Selfish

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    Did they even have a protest in Kentucky? Republicans love reacting to something their base cares about in the most meaningless ways possible. Buying time for nothing.
     
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    Yeah, Louisville to protest the killing of Breonna Taylor by police
     
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    I thought Republicans liked the constitution
     
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    I guess we can't have people hurting the polices feelings
     
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    bulls_with_booz We're Selfish

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    Oh fair enough. Didn't associate that with the Floyd protests but it was around the same time. Still, I think that one was rather minor in the sense of any damages to police or property?
     
  8. Chris Craig

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    Some cops were shot. It was a pretty heated protest.

    Still, this bill will only make things worse. It just emphasizes Kentucky Republicans care about blue lives and not black ones.
     
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    So this bill is both useless and makes the cops who actually had a pretty tough job that day look like pussies? Impressive.
     
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    Only when it can be used to increase the suffering of poor people.
     
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    As far as the Republicans are concerned, the Constitution protects guns, not people.
     
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    FTFY.

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    But when do people stop being people? If a bug eats part of your corpse, is that bug now a people?
     
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    A bug is a people, yes. Except for a ladybug, which is a lady people.

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    When they are born.

    Bill references insulting police in a way that leads to violence. In other words, someone beaten by cops would then be arrested for making the cop do it. Like every abuser, you made me hit you.
     
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    No, just incubators.
     
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