The Kentucky state senate passed a bill that would make it a crime to “taunt” a police officer. The bill's sponsor, Senator Danny Carroll is a retired cop. He proposed the bill in response to protests last summer, sparked in part by the killing of Breonna Taylor in Kentucky.
The bill specifically states anyone who “accosts, insults, taunts, or challenges an officer with offensive or derisive words, or by gestures or other physical contact, that would have a direct tendency to provoke a violent response” would face up to 90 days in jail and fines.
Besides being a blatant violation of your freedom of speech, it also puts the blame for police violence on their feelings being hurt.
Totally unrelated: if you were, hypothetically, going to insult a police officer, what would be your go-to insult?
Hypothetically.
Totally unrelated: if you were, hypothetically, going to insult a police officer, what would be your go-to insult?
Hypothetically.
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