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Minnesota City Makes Attacking Police Officers A Hate Crime [VIDEO]

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David Hookstead Sports And Entertainment Editor
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Red Wing, Minn., has passed a resolution that calls for anybody who attacks a police officer to be charged with a hate crime, thus making police officers a protected class.

Red Wing is now the second second city in America and the first in Minnesota to make attacking a police officer a hate crime, according to Minnesota CBS affiliate WCCO.

“They are targeting not the person but the position and the authority,” Red Wing Police Chief Roger Pohlman said of recent anti-police violence.

The Red Wing city council has also passed a resolution that requires a police officer to pull over their car and flash their lights for one minute every day for a month in honor of the 30 police officers killed in 2015. (RELATED: Boston Police Boycott Obama’s Speech)

While this resolution is at the local level, Pohlman would like to see legislation at the federal level that would make attacking police officers a hate crime.

“The national Fraternal Order of Police is looking at federal legislation that would make it a hate crime to attack law enforcement,” he said.

The city of Red Wing hopes its example serves as inspiration for more people in the state of Minnesota to act and implement similar rules.

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