Louisiana’s Blue Lives Matter Law Makes Resisting Arrest A Hate Crime
A United States flag, with blue and black stripes in support of law enforcement officers, flies at a protest by police and their supporters outside Somerville City Hall, July 28, 2016, in Somerville, Mass. (AP/Charles Krupa)
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.
