In the latest episode of “Who’s That Statist,” Kentucky state lawmakers are introducing legislation that would outlaw saying certain words to an officer of the law. Indeed, if passed, the proposal would make it illegal to hurl insults or taunts at a police officer.
Fox News reported:
A bill advancing out of a Kentucky Senate committee on Thursday would make it a crime to insult or taunt a police officer to the point where the taunts provoke a violent response.
Senate Bill 211 passed by a 7-3 vote, according to reports. The proposal was a response to riots throughout the country last summer, said the bill’s sponsor, Sen. Danny Carroll, R-Benton, a retired police officer.
State Sen. Carrol told the Louisville Courier-Journal, “In these riots, you see people getting up in officers’ faces, yelling in their ears, doing everything they can to provoke a violent response.”
He continued, “I’m not saying the officers do that, but there has to be a provision within that statute to allow officers to react to that. Because that does nothing but incite those around that vicinity and it furthers and escalates the riotous behavior.”
Despite the content of the bill, Carroll insisted that it was not about “in any way, shape, form or fashion.”
read more here: https://redstate.com/jeffc/2021/03/05/kentucky-legislators-seek-to-pass-law-making-it-a-crime-to-taunt-a-police-officer-n338343
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