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A Illinois legislator has introduced a bill that critics say it will legalize it for anyone who experiences an episode of mental health to attack Police.
The State Democratic Representative Lisa Davis, lawyer of the Bar Association of the Office of Public Defenders of Cook of Cook, presented the bill 3458 of the House of Representatives in February.
According to the terms of the legislation, the bill “would provide) that it is an aggravated battery defense when the mistreated individual 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 that he was having an episode of mental health and the person with whom the officer interacts has a documented mental illness and acted abruptly.”
Illinois state representative, Lisa Davis, has introduced a bill that would legalize attacks against police officers by those who seem to have an episode of mental health. (Getty Images | Illinois General Assembly)
The bill has collected two copatrochinters, representatives Marcus Evans and Kelly Cassidy.
Currently, a person in Illinois can be accused of aggravated battery If they attack “an individual whom the person knows that he is a peace officer, community surveillance volunteer, firefighter, private security officer, employee of the correctional institution or employees of the Department of Human Services who supervise or control sexually dangerous people or sexually violent people.”
Second Cop City, a blog that reports on Chicago’s police affairs, reported for the first time about the bill.
Second Cop City, a blog that reports on Chicago’s police affairs, reported for the first time about the bill. (Chicago Police Department)
“If this happens, mental illness will be an excuse to attack and defeat police officers,” says the blog. “In fact, who wants to bet that there will be thousands of people who will suddenly have medical notes that allow them to attack the police?”
Davis’s proposal legalize attacks About official peace. Other lifeguards would be saved, such as firefighters, like her husband, CWB Chicago reported.
The bill has been sent to the Rules Committee of the Illinois General Assembly, where unpopular legislation will die, according to the news report.
The bill has been sent to the Rules Committee of the Illinois General Assembly, where unpopular legislation will die. (Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune/Tribune News Service through Getty Images)
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Fox News Digital has communicated with Davis and the Chicago chapter of the Grand Lodge of the Police Fraternal Order.
