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Bill Would Protect Drivers Who Run Into Protesters

Bill Would Protect Drivers Who Run Into Protesters
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By The Associated Press
Oct. 23, 2017 | FRANKFORT, KY
By The Associated Press Oct. 23, 2017 | 03:41 PM | FRANKFORT, KY
A Republican lawmaker in Kentucky has filed legislation that would ban protesters from blocking the streets without a permit and shield drivers who unintentionally hit them from criminal and civil penalties.

The Lexington Herald-Leader reports state Rep. Wesley Morgan filed the bill on Friday. The bill would make it punishable by up to a year in jail to block traffic on a public road during a protest without a permit. Drivers who unintentionally hit protesters who are blocking the road would be immune from criminal or civil penalties.

The bill comes after a counter-protester at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, was killed earlier this year when a man drove a car through the crowd. Republican lawmakers in six other states have filed similar bills. Most of them failed.
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