A Senate committee from the state of Kentucky has approved the first round of voting for making insults towards officers a crime.
Local media reports confirmed how the committee showed their full support for the bill that would no longer tolerate any form of provoking police officers with taunts or insults of some sort.
Titled as the ‘Senate Bill 211’ the committee explained how it passed the decision by a great 7-3 vote margin. And now, that means it would proceed towards the full Senate, where critics believe it could get passed as early as the next week.
One retired police officer who actually sponsored the bill, Sen. Danny Carroll, mentioned how the proposal came about in a first way.
And that’s when he explained how the leading number of protests that took place last summer. These demonstrations called for reform of the police as well as an overhaul of the country’s judicial system too.
In the same way, Carroll also spoke about how many people got up and began yelling in police officers’ ears as well as trying to get into their faces too. Moreover, the protesters did their level best to provoke the officers to give out a violent response during the mass spread of riots. confirmed the Louisville Courier-Journal.
Carroll also made it clear that he wasn’t referring to officers giving out a violent response.
Instead, he was talking more about how there needs to be some sort of provision that allows cops to react to it. And that’s because he feels this does nothing but incites violence amongst many in and around the vicinity, while further escalating the protesters’ aggression and riotous behavior.
The retired cop also went on stressing how the bill did not intend to restrict any form of lawful protests ‘in any shape, way, or form.’ He confirmed this by stating, “This nation was built upon lawful protest, and it is definitely something that we must all maintain.”