New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances
New Louisiana law will criminalize approaching police under certain circumstances
Louisiana Gov. Jeff Landry has signed legislation making it a crime to knowingly approach within 25 feet of a police officer while they are “engaged in law enforcement duties” after the officer has ordered the person to stay back.
In a nation which has the highest percentage of its citizens imprisoned in the world, Louisiana is the state with the highest percentage of its citizens imprisoned in the country. This is the exact wrong direction.
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I can't imagine this is constitutional.
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if you're so terrified of everyone and everything that, even fully-armed and with full body armor, countless backup, and military-grade armored vehicles, you still can't feel unsafe to the point that you need to criminalize citizens even approaching you, then you just may not be psychologically fit to be a cop. or outside of a mental hospital.
it's paranoid psychosis
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And the cops all will be able judge 25 feet down to the inch, it's like their amazing ability to know exactly how fast you're driving with just their Spidey sense. With their super selective hearing, though, they can only hear gunshots from hundreds of miles around so they're always scared, it's why they need their safety circle and emotional support gun.
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Jeff Landry signed into law Tuesday, fear the measure could hinder the public’s ability to film officers, which has increasingly been used to hold police accountable — including in high profile cases, such as the killing of George Floyd.
“This is part of our continued pledge to address public safety in this state,” Landry, who has a law enforcement background, said during the bill signing.
Author of the legislation state Rep. Bryan Fontenot, like his fellow Republican lawmakers, said the new law provides officers “peace of mind and safe distance to do their job.”
“The twenty-five-foot buffer legislation fundamentally seeks to curtail Louisianians’ ability to hold police accountable for violence and misconduct,” the American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana said in a statement Tuesday.
“At 25 feet, that person can’t spit in my face when I’m making an arrest,” state Rep. Fontenot said while presenting his bill in a committee earlier this year.
Language in the measure appears to put in some safety nets, stating that an acceptable “defense to this crime” includes establishing that the “lawful order or command was neither received nor understood by the defendant.”
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