Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., introduced a bill in Congress that would make it a hate crime to target a police officer. Dubbed the Blue Lives Matter Act of 2016, the bill would expand the federal hate crime statute to include law enforcement officers who are targeted for acts of violence because of their jobs.
Buck said that the law would provide federal prosecutors an extra measure of authority in cases in which police are gunned downed and ambushed in the line of duty. “It would work the same way as existing hate-crime laws do which allow federal prosecutors to bring additional charges in cases in which victims are targeted for violent crime because of their background.”
Go to the next page for the outcome of the Blue Lives Matter bill.
I agree
should also be mandatory death sentence
Makes sense to me. The government must protect it’s revenue collectors and enforcers, or the enforcers won’t protect them.
I agree, BLUE LIVES MATTER.
Be thoughtful about what you may wish, unintended consequences lurk in hasty decisions.
ITS A DAMN CRIME IN AMERICA WE NEED A BILL SAYING YOU CANNOT MURDER POLICE HOW RIDICULOUS IS THAT ONLY IN AMERICA DO YOU HAVE MORONS ALLOWING BLM THANKS OBAMA FOR CONDEMNING THOSE THUGS
There is a big difference between someone enforcing the law and someone breaking the law
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Why does there have to be a bill for everything? How about a little common sense and use the laws already on the books! Since when is it OK to kill anyone, black, white, blue or purple??? We have laws that say you can’t do this or that, then enforce the laws we have! They are being threatened every day, that isn’t a first amendment right, it’s a threat! Do something!
You have my support I support all law enforcement that act professional and uphold the law and protect the public.