00:00My good old home state of Louisiana is now officially the first state, I know, caress
00:07me slow, to enact the Blue Lives Matter law, which has made resisting an arrest considered
00:11a felony hate crime.
00:13The new law is intended to make cops, firefighters, and EMS personnel protected classes under
00:17the state's hate crime statute, but does this law do more harm than good?
00:21Panelists, is it a slay or a shade for Louisiana's Blue Lives Matter law?
00:25Shade, shade, shade.
00:27Rondell, let me start with you.
00:29You know, we'll start with me as a black man, because here's what I'm trying to say.
00:33The issue is, and we've had this conversation around everything, people saying black lives
00:39matter, and they're concerned about all these other issues.
00:42Yes, it's an issue when police officers and other government officials are being attacked,
00:46but the main issue that's even the stem of that issue is that y'all killing us.
00:51So that's where it stems.
00:53Police officers are protected by so many other laws.
00:56You're going to add another reason for corrupt police officers to feel like they can do whatever
01:00they want to do?
01:01That's not positive.
01:02It's just another, it's a level onto an already existing issue.
01:07You're not fixing anything.
01:08The thing is, is that we've watched video after video where police are like, stop resisting
01:14arrest.
01:14And the dude is like, I'm not resisting arrest.
01:17So, you know what I mean?
01:18My hands are up, I'm standing still.
01:18The hands are up, standing still, or they knocked out.
01:21I mean, they've shot people and said, stop resisting arrest.
01:23Like, bruh, I'm shot right now.
01:24How am I resisting arrest?
01:25So, this just proves that, this is just, like he said, another opportunity for them to just
01:31be like, I know we're going to do some massive stuff, so let's go ahead and further protect
01:34ourselves and not give y'all an opportunity to have anything to say.
01:38But meanwhile, we're the ones getting killed.
01:39Right.
01:40Scotty?
01:41I don't even think this is to protect, you know, this Blue Lives Matter thing.
01:45I think it's honestly to slight and disrespect Black Lives Matter.
01:49And that's what I think this is all about.
01:51This is petty, and this is definitely shady, because this is them trying to take a stand
01:55and trying to put their foot down and say, yeah, you still don't matter.
01:58The Blue Lives Matter.
02:00Absolutely.
02:01And who's trying to fight the firemen when they come to the house?
02:04Like, that's what I'm wondering.
02:05Who?
02:05I've never seen anybody fight the firemen.
02:08Or EMS.
02:09Please get in here.
02:10Or EMS.
02:11Right.
02:11You better not put that oxygen in me.
02:12I've never seen that.
02:14I've never seen that.
02:15I don't want it.
02:15I don't want it.
02:16Like, who's going that?
02:17Kayla, what's going on in social media?
02:19Minnette Champagne says, L.A. throwing shade as always.
02:23Debra Treanor says, shade only in the Black community where we worry about this.
02:27Crystal Wood says, whose interpretation of resisting arrest are we going to use?
02:31This is the problem with the new law.
02:32Dad.
02:33And I think that's the biggest issue.
02:34We were talking about it, of course, before the show.
02:36And it's like, that's a blanket statement, resisting arrest.
02:39And it's very hard, and everything's left open to interpretation.
02:41It seems like it might make things a little bit worse.
02:49I know.
02:54It's very hard.
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