Illinois Dem lawmaker pushes bill to legalize attacks on police for people having mental health episode

Critics say the bill would embolden those who attack police

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An Illinois lawmaker has introduced a bill that critics say will make it legal for anyone experiencing a mental health episode to attack police officers.

Democratic state Rep. Lisa Davis, an attorney in the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender's office, introduced House Bill 3458 in February. 

Under the terms of the legislation, the bill would "[provide] that it is a defense to aggravated battery when the individual battered is a peace officer and the officer responded to an incident in which the officer interacted with a person whom a reasonable officer could believe was having a mental health episode and the person with whom the officer interacted has a documented mental illness and acted abruptly." Read more and see video here.

Here Are the Dem Talking Points Defending the Shutdown They're Going to Cause 

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We’re on the verge of a government shutdown after Senate Democrats held firm to prevent passing a cloture motion on the House GOP’s continuing resolution to keep the government open for six months. This path gives Congress plenty of time to pass the budget reconciliation package. Short-term CRs won’t cut it, but this is the Democrats’ shutdown. They’re getting a jump on the talking points, but there’s enough tape and idiocy here to cause a backlash.

 

Anyway, here’s how the Democrats are going to defend this kamikaze act on the Hill:

 

If the Senate Democrats shutter most of the government by voting down the CR, they will empower President Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and Russell Vought to pare the federal government workforce to its genuinely essential size, most of which will be at DOD, CIA, NSA, Homeland Security, DOJ. The entitlement checks will still go out but everything else will stop. The employees won’t get paid. And I suspect this time those who are recalled to work eventually won’t get back pay. Read more, see Xs and videos here.