Actually, I'm OK with that. Show that they hit the cop to express general negativity towards cops, or make an example of one, or some such, and you can tack 10 years onto their sentence.
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If you Love Liberty, you must Hate Trump!
Enacting any sort of law that confers special status or special protection to any organ of government or any individual member of it is antithetical to the idea behind hate crime legislation.
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