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*An Illinois lawmaker has introduced a bill that critics say will make it legal for anyone experiencing a mental health episode to attack police officers <www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/police-and-law-enforcement>.*
*Democratic state Rep. Lisa Davis, an attorney in the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender’s office, introduced House Bill 3458 in February. *
*Under the terms of the legislation, the bill would “[provide] that it is a defense to aggravated battery when the individual battered is a peace officer and the officer responded to an incident in which the officer interacted with a person whom a reasonable officer could believe was having a mental health episode and the person with whom the officer interacted has a documented mental illness and acted abruptly.”*
*The bill has picked up two co-sponsors, Reps. Marcus Evans and Kelly Cassidy. *
*Currently, a person in Illinois can be charged with aggravated battery <www.foxnews.com/category/crime> if they attack “an individual whom the person knows to be a peace officer, community policing volunteer, fireman, private security officer, correctional institution employee, or Department of Human Services employee supervising or controlling sexually dangerous persons or sexually violent persons.”*
*Second Cop City, a blog that reports on Chicago policing matters, first reported on the bill.*
*An Illinois lawmaker has introduced a bill that critics say will make it legal for anyone experiencing a mental health episode to attack police officers <www.foxnews.com/category/us/crime/police-and-law-enforcement>.*
*Democratic state Rep. Lisa Davis, an attorney in the Law Office of the Cook County Public Defender’s office, introduced House Bill 3458 in February. *
*Under the terms of the legislation, the bill would “[provide] that it is a defense to aggravated battery when the individual battered is a peace officer and the officer responded to an incident in which the officer interacted with a person whom a reasonable officer could believe was having a mental health episode and the person with whom the officer interacted has a documented mental illness and acted abruptly.”*
*The bill has picked up two co-sponsors, Reps. Marcus Evans and Kelly Cassidy. *
*Currently, a person in Illinois can be charged with aggravated battery <www.foxnews.com/category/crime> if they attack “an individual whom the person knows to be a peace officer, community policing volunteer, fireman, private security officer, correctional institution employee, or Department of Human Services employee supervising or controlling sexually dangerous persons or sexually violent persons.”*
*Second Cop City, a blog that reports on Chicago policing matters, first reported on the bill.*
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