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Kentucky criminalizes insulting the police

Kentucky Senate Passes Bill Criminalizing Insults Against Police The state Senate passed the measure on Thursday that would make it a crime to insult police officers and boost penalties for rioting. 89.3 WFPL News Louisville

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The bill would make it a Class B misdemeanor if someone “accosts, insults, taunts, or challenges a law enforcement officer with offensive or derisive words, or by gestures or other physical contact, that would have a direct tendency to provoke a violent response from the perspective of a reasonable and prudent person.”

It also creates new protest-related crimes, requiring anyone charged with “rioting” to be held in jail for a minimum of 48 hours and making it a Class D felony to resist arrest during a ‘riot.’”

literally blaming the victims for police brutality, and criminalizing them for it.