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police 1Canandaigua - Floyd Rayburn, conservative republican running for New York State Senate, 54th district, says he if he's elected he will introduce the companion bill to Assemblyman Ronald Castorina's bill 'Blue Lives Matter.'  Castorina is an assemblyman from Staten Island who will introduce the bill tomorrow, August 6th.

Castorina's bill would increase the penalties for the use of physical force against a police officer.  He argues two years of demonstrations have put an even larger target on police officers backs than they already had.  The bill would recognize police officers as a protected class.

Castorina highlights the recent assassinations of cops in Dallas, Louisiana and the NYPD in moving forward with this legislation.

Rayburn says, "Police put their lives on the line every day.  The vast majority of people recognize that, but it seems there are many who don't respect the police anymore.  They feel justified in attacking the police, even killing them.  This has to stop and anything I can do to help in that fight, is what I will do."

New York state law upgrades penalties for crimes against protected classes.   This bill would ramp up an assault on an on-duty police officer from a class C felony to class B felony.  If an attacker meant to do serious harm, it would go from a class B to an A.

This would mean much harsher sentencing for offenders.  Louisiana has already enacted its own Blue Lives Matter bill, and Texas is considering a similar measure.

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