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can someone explain to me how in the hell this law was interpreted this way and if it was interpreted correctly if we are in fact now a part of Florida?
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St. Martinville Police hope change comes with state's new hate c - KATC.com | Continuous News Coverage | Acadiana-Lafayette
Resisting arrest should not be labeled a hate crime | NOLA.com
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"Resisting an officer or battery of a police officer was just that charge, simply. But now, Governor Edwards, in the legislation, made it a hate crime now," said Hebert.
Under the new law, Hebert says any offender who resists, or gets physical, with an officer can be charged with a felony hate crime.
For example, if someone who's arrested for petty theft, a misdemeanor, tries to assault an officer, that individual can be charged with a hate crime. A hate crime is considered a much more serious offense, with serious consequences.
St. Martinville Police hope change comes with state's new hate c - KATC.com | Continuous News Coverage | Acadiana-Lafayette
Resisting arrest should not be labeled a hate crime | NOLA.com
There are some people who shrugged at the new law as a ridiculous redundancy. Why should we get exercised at the Legislature deciding to get tough on people who attack police when the state's statutes are already plenty tough on people who attack police?
St. Martinville Police Chief Calder Hebert provides us with one answer. Hebert said in an interview last week with a Lafayette television station that the law grants him permission to book people who resist arrest with committing a hate crime