BREAKING NEWS – Frankfort, Kentucky – A bill advancing out of a Kentucky Senate committee 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.
“In these riots, you see people getting up in officers’ faces, yelling in their ears, doing everything they can to provoke a violent response,” Carroll said, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Antifa and BLM said that they would fight this proposal all the way. “What they are attempting to do is obvious,” the two organizations said in a joint letter. “Our goal has always been to provoke an aggressive response, exaggerate any injuries we obtain, and hope for a massive payout. Most of us have no future, and we were hoping for an out-of-court settlement, to help us acquire nice things that people normally have to work for. By denying us the option of instigating a physically confrontation by the cops, forces us to become continually gainfully employed for years, and by our standards, that is totally unacceptable.”