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.”
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Each state should have it’s own blue lives matter laws. Don’t count on DC to pass this.
Bureau of Land Management?
It’s about time! My gosh, look how many officers have had to be murdered before someone finally called it what it is!! This should be the law across the country!
Ovomit will have it declared unconstitutional.
Blue lives matter these men are protecting the good people
remember obama is creating a un police force this will be for them too.
About time!
Yes Blue Lives Matter. Men & Women of Our Law Enforcement, put their lives on the line Everyday to protect American Citizens. I want to say, Thank You, for Your Service.
Once they vocally said kill cops and whites they should have been labeled terrorists and the appropriate action needed to take place. The fact they weren’t shows they are being protected by the obsama administration and wanted to cause racial division.
Add in Obama, Holder, Sharpton the first to be charged.