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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Thank You for your service brother & May God protect you & your family now
The lives of criminals, especially violent ones, do not matter.
If you kill a Law Enforcement Officer , it should be Capital Punishment, end of story!!
Hate crimes is a stupid and hypocritical idea. It separates us into categories. When our government says equal Justice for all.
A new law needs to be in place for anyone that kills an officer should get the death penalty.
Awesome
This bill needs to pass. But added should be this – ambush and death as a result of the ambush should be punishable by an automatic death sentence, preferably the way the officer was killed. No prison time. Why should taxpayers pay for his food, housing, clothes etc?
Same should be for Officer K-9, if the dog was doing his duty and was deliberately shot/stabbed/killed.
It’s time to show these terrorist groups/thugs that we mean business and there’s consequences for their behavior.
God bless our law enforcement
We need to respect and stand with our law enforcement.
Number of Americans killed by terrorists since 9/11: 26
Number of Americans gunned down/ beat to death by police since 9/11: 5,000+
And you think POLICE need protected?!
There is no “war on police!” The war is against “we the people!”