Posted on 09/08/2016 12:50:02 PM PDT by BBell
New Orleans police arrested a man this week and charged him with a hate crime and other offenses after police say he damaged a window at a French Quarter hotel and then shouted slurs at a witness and officers, according to the man's arrest warrant.
It appears to be the first time Louisiana's so-called "blue lives matter" provision has been used to charge someone with a hate crime involving police officers, according to the Anti-defamation League.
Raul Delatoba, 28, was booked Monday (Sept. 5) on charges of simple criminal damage to property, disturbing the peace and a felony-level hate crime, his arrest warrant says. During his arrest, but after he had broken the window, Delatoba is accused of using sexist and racial slurs against police officers, the document shows.
The regional director of the Anti-defamation League, an organization that trains law enforcement agencies to enforce hate crimes, said she does not believe a hate crime occurred in this incident, based on the circumstances described in Delatoba's warrant.
Allison Padilla-Goodman, the group's director, said she believes Delatoba is possibly the first person charged with a hate crime under the "blue lives matter" provision the Legislature recently added to the state's hate crime law. The provision adds law enforcement occupation to the list of targeted victims for which a hate crime applies.
According to arrest documents, Delatoba was drunk and banging on a window at the Royal Sonesta Hotel, 300 Bourbon St. around 5:15 a.m. Monday, when a witness who heard the banging told him to stop. Delatoba's warrant says he yelled at the witness, "calling him a n-----."
That witness, a security guard who works at a nearby building's mezzanine, along with a security supervisor for the Royal Sonesta, flagged down two Louisiana State Troopers who then escorted Delatoba
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I don't like hate crime laws.
Nor do I like hate crime laws. A crime is a crime is a crime.
As the cops represent the government, this is a BIG 1st Amendment problem.
What a friggin joke. Another protected class.
Cruz and co wants to add more protections to the government class as well.
After Dallas, Texas senators launch bid to punish those who target cops
Hate crime laws are stupid
Yup. don’t need hate crime laws for this. I’d go with letting an officer explain things to the punk for a few moments (away from any camera).
A little “hickory shampoo” would do the trick.
All “law” created in response to a tragedy of some kind or another is a total pile of crap. Always!
Well politicians are known for their jerky knees.
InB4 the first Political Lives Matter hate crime laws...
So name-calling is now a felony. Another reason to stay away.
Agreed.
Hate-crimes essentially presume the motive which must then be disproven — inverting our traditional jurisprudence of innocent until proven guilty
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Mine would be AG344 that”s Army Green from the Cold War Vietnam War Eras.
I think yelling and swearing at police has been upheld as protected speech.
Hey, New Orleans Police, F*&K OFF AND DIE you worthless scum.
Come Arrest me
I hate hate crime laws, since they reinforce a hierarchy of value for lives, akin to Shariah law saying Muslim man worth 1, Muslim women and Christian men worth half, Christian women worth 1/4, etc.
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