As police escort protest: MT @MrNikoG: “Pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon” #BlackFair pic.twitter.com/L765aJMsZD
— Eric M. Larson (@emlarson) August 29, 2015
Of course, they don’t want any additional penalties when they kill cops.
Via PJ Media:
The leader of the Black Lives Matter chapter in St. Paul, Minn., has a problem with the resolution being pushed by the Fraternal Order of Police that calls for expanding the federal hate crimes law to including killing police.
“Law enforcement wants to make themselves out to be the victims,” Rashad Turner told the Star Tribune after the Red Wing, Minn., City Council approved the FOP-sponsored resolution.
James Pasco, the executive director of the Fraternal Order of Police Legislative Advocacy Center, told PJM he actually agrees with Turner: “Well, when people are ambushed and killed for no other reason than because they are police officers, they are victims.”
The Red Wing City Council is one of three local governmental units to support the expansion of the federal hate crime law. Shelbyville, Ind., City Council members also voted to support the resolution in October. Warren County, Ohio, commissioners approved the resolution in late September.
“It seems that anyone wearing a blue uniform has become a target in the minds of a lot of people — a target not because of what they’re doing, but a target because of who they are, which for me really kind of moves it into the hate crimes area,” Red Wing City Council Vice President Peggy Rehder said after the resolution was approved.
“In this case, it’s not the color of their skin, but the color of their uniform,” she added.