Update to this story.
Via NY Daily News:
Louisiana’s governor has signed first-of-its-kind legislation placing crimes against law enforcement on par with those against minorities.
Gov. John Bel Edwards made the bill law in the Pelican State on Thursday, with firefighters and EMS officers also given the new legal hate-crime protections.
“The men and women who put their lives on the line every day, often under very dangerous circumstances are true heroes and they deserve every protection that we can give them,” Edwards, a Democrat, said of the law in a statement.
The legislation has been called the “Blue Lives Matter” bill, adopting the slogan used in response to Black Lives Matter movement’s criticisms of police brutality.