by Kirsten Conley

May 10, 2017

 

Attacking or killing cops and other first responders would be a hate crime under a bill passed by the state Senate on Tuesday.

The Community Heroes Protection Act would make cops, firefighter and EMTs among those to be included in the state’s hate crimes laws which bump violent crimes up a level and impose harsher penalties.

The legislation, sponsored by retired Upstate undersheriff, Republican Sen. Fred Akshar, was spurred in part by the death of 135 law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty in the United States last year. That’s the highest number since 2011 and 21 of those resulted from ambush killings, the highest number in two decades.

 

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