Louisiana’s Blue Lives Matter Law Makes Resisting Arrest A Hate Crime

A hate crime is considered a much more serious offense, with considerably more serious consequences.

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Blue Lives Matter Protest

ST. MARTINVILLE, La. (REPORT) --- The state's new "" law is already being used here in Acadiana. In the last year, Louisiana became the first state to offer hate crime protections to police officers. St. Martinville Police Chief Calder Hebert hopes the law will not only save lives, but make offenders think twice before resisting arrest. "We

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Alleged Chicago Assault Reignites Issue Of Hate Crimes Against Whites

As Chicago authorities waited before filing hate-crime charges against four young adult blacks for an alleged attack on a white disabled man, the Internet raged.

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Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson speaks during a news conference Thursday, Jan. 5, 2017, on the hate crime and other charges filed against four individuals for an attack on a man that was captured on a Facebook video. (Antonio Perez/Chicago Tribune via AP)

(ANALYSIS) --- The meaning and enforcement of the Illinois hate-crimes statute seems destined for intense scrutiny with the arrest this week of four young black adults in Chicago in connection with the assault of a mentally disabled white man. The arrests by the Chicago Police Department resulted in part from what appeared to a livestreamed video

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Jewish Man Arrested In Florida Mosque Arson Had History Of Islamophobic Rhetoric

Joseph Michael Schreiber posted on Facebook that “All Islam is radical” and that all Muslims should be treated as terrorists and criminals.

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This undated booking photo released by the St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office shows Joseph Michael Schreiber, 32, who was arrested Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016, in Fort Pierce, Fla., and is facing a charge of arson with a hate crime enhancement in connection with a fire that heavily damaged a Florida mosque. (St. Lucie County Sheriff's Office via AP)

FORT PIERCE, Fla. — About two months before Joseph Michael Schreiber allegedly tried to burn down a mosque sometimes attended by Orlando nightclub shooter Omar Mateen, he posted on Facebook that "All Islam is radical" and that all Muslims should be treated as terrorists and criminals. Schreiber, 32, was arrested without incident Wednesday

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Tulsa Hate Crime: Khalid Jabara’s Family Speaks Out After His Murder by Racist White Neighbor

Police records show that the killer had frequently taunted, stalked, and threatened members of the Jabara family, calling them “dirty Arabs,” “filthy Lebanese”, “Aye-rabs”, and “Mooslems”.

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37 year old Khalid Jabara, shot and killed on the front porch of his home by his neighbor, Stanley Majors.

In Oklahoma, funeral services were held Friday for Khalid Jabara, a Lebanese-American man police say was shot dead by his next-door neighbor in a possible hate crime. Police say Stanley Majors will be charged with first-degree murder. Majors has harassed the Jabara family for years. The August 12 killing came less than a year after Majors was

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2 Muslims Killed In New York In Suspected Hate Crime

Although police have yet to yet to establish a motive, residents demanded authorities treat the brazen daylight shooting as a hate crime.

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New York police department crime scene investigators photograph evidence Saturday, Aug. 13, 2016, in the Queens borough of New York, after the leader of a New York City mosque and an associate were fatally shot as they left afternoon prayers. Police said 55-year-old Imam Maulama Akonjee and his 64-year-old associate, Tharam Uddin, were shot as they left the Al-Furqan mosque.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim advocacy organization in the United States, announced on Sunday it is offering a US$10,000 reward for information about the man behind the shootings on Saturday of a New York imam and his associate amid, a development that comes amid outcry from the city's Muslim community over the

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‘Blue Lives Matter’ Bill Adds Police To ‘Protected Class’

The bill would make resisting arrest a hate crime.

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Baton Rouge, LA — Last year, in an outburst of pure insanity, the National Fraternal Order of Police, a union representing over 300,000 officers, called for cops to be included under Congress’s hate crimes statute. This demand has now materialized into actual legislation being presented to Louisiana lawmakers. Bill HB 953 would change the state’s

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