Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards signed a bill Thursday making violent acts against police officers, firefighters and EMS workers a hate crime.<br />Louisiana becomes the first state to add someones vocation to the list of defining factors of hate crime, like skin color, religion and gender.<br />The bill did come with some criticism, namely from Regional Director of the Anti-Defamation League Allison Padilla-Goodman “Working in a profession is not a personal characteristic, and it is not immutable,” said Goodman.<br />The bill was pushed into action after a Texas sheriff’s deputy, was ambushed, shot and killed while in uniform last August.
