Disclaimers offered in advance: it\u2019s The Blaze, so it\u2019s just a smidgen suspect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But if it\u2019s true, I\u2019m not sure I like this story<\/a> all that much: The police charged a Utah woman with a \u201chate crime\u201c for destroying a \u201cBack the Blue\u201c sign and quote smirking and \u201cat a deputy in an \u201cintimidating\u201c manner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “As I concluded my traffic stop and released the individuals, I observed some of the individuals’ friends approach them and attempt to console them,” the deputy wrote in a probable cause affidavit, the News said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n “I observed one of the friends, later identified to be Lauren Gibson, stomping on a ‘Back the Blue’ sign next to where the traffic stop was conducted, crumble it up in a destructive manner, and throw it into a trash can all while smirking in an intimidating manner towards me,” the deputy added, according the paper.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n On the one hand? I\u2019m not going to say there\u2019s not some smidgen of glorious schadenfreude<\/em> involved in seeing one of these entitled little \u201cprogressive\u201c twerps getting a comeuppance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On the other?<\/p> Think of all the legitimate hate crimes that \u201cProgressive\u201c, under the cover that urban progressive privilege grant them, have carried out over the past 10 or 15 years; James Hodgkinson and his shooting spree against Republicans, the assault on Senator Rand Paul, and for that matter this little list of politically motivated bias crimes t<\/a>hat I used to maintain until it stopped being fun, for that matter, among many others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Distraction of signs and \u201cintimidating\u201c \u201csmirking\u201c? That\u2019s every election season for every conservative in Saint Paul.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Is it a good thing that, of all of the non-Leftist victims of bias-based assaults in this country, only cops seem to be covered by hate crime laws?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Disclaimers offered in advance: it\u2019s The Blaze, so it\u2019s just a smidgen suspect. But if it\u2019s true, I\u2019m not sure I like this story all that much: The police charged a Utah woman with a \u201chate crime\u201c for destroying a \u201cBack the Blue\u201c sign and quote smirking and \u201cat a deputy in an \u201cintimidating\u201c manner. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,24,377],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-culture-war","category-the-second-civil-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78747,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78746\/revisions\/78747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}