Don't blame me, I voted for the other guy. (Politics General)

H.B. 1 fleshes out existing laws against blocking streets as part of protests and increases penalties for anybody who commits battery or similar violent crimes as part of a riot.[

It establishes a minimum six-month jail sentence for anybody convicted of battery against a police officer as part of a riot.

It creates a new crime—mob intimidation—which is defined as two or more people attempting to use or threatening force “to compel or induce, or attempt to compel or induce another person to do or refrain from doing any act or to assume, abandon, or maintain a particular viewpoint against his or her will,” punishable as a first-degree misdemeanor (which entails up to a year in jail and up to a $1,000 fine).

It establishes that anybody convicted of vandalizing or destroying historic property or a memorial is committing a felony, with a possible prison sentence of up to 15 years and a fine of up to $10,000, as well as restitution orders.
H.B. 1 further establishes a mandate that municipalities must respond to protect people and their property during a riot or any unlawful assembly. Failure to do so strips the municipality itself of civil immunity and opens it up to lawsuits for damages.

It gives a commission in the governor’s office veto power over municipalities within the state if they attempt to reduce the budget of their own police departments.

It prohibits releasing anybody arrested for certain crimes like theft or assault during a riot until the arrested person has appeared before a magistrate.

It creates a new crime of “cyberintimidation by publication,” making it unlawful to electronically publish somebody’s personal identification information with the intent to (or with the intent that a third party will) incite violence against the person, harass the person, or place “such person in reasonable fear of bodily harm.” This section makes no distinction between private citizens or government workers or even elected political figures. Violating the law is a first-degree misdemeanor (up to a year in jail and up to a $1,000 fine).

It creates an affirmative defense for anybody taken to civil court over injury, damage, or death if it is the result of a participant in the lawsuit engaging in rioting. This part of the law has been presented in the press as granting legal immunity to people who run over protesters.

I’m just here continuing to wonder why people here on a EU based site talk about US based politics 90% of the time.

A QAnon conspiracist in LA drowned her three children, claiming it was to protect them from their estranged father.

The father was apparently the normal one, and was trying to get custody. The mother was a nutcase, claiming personal responsibility for starting Covid and believing that her hometown housed a pedophilia ring.

“On Friday, sick and evil POS (piece of s****) in the media attacked me with phrases I never said or wrote,” Greene said in a statement to Newsweek. “The scum and liars in the media are calling me a racist by taking something out of context,” she added.

According to a seven-page document that reportedly outlined the group’s policy plan, the America First caucus said it was calling for a “common respect for uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions,” and a return to an architectural style that “befits the progeny or European architecture.”

Anglo-Saxon is a term for white people related to Germanic inhabitants of fifth-century England, prompting several Republican lawmakers to accuse the group of being “white supremacist” and hateful.