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Considering it’s not unusual for cops to be assaulted by family members or friends of the person they are questioning or arresting, I don’t agree that standing 1 ft away from a cop who is trying to conduct police work is reasonable in terms of security.

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> Considering it’s not unusual for cops to be assaulted by family members or friends

That’s already illegal.

> I don’t agree

You don’t disagree either (yet), because that statement doesn’t contradict the parent comment.

The parent comment is highlighting the poisonous way Kavanagh engages in politics discourse. You’re demonstrating it.

Sure attacking a cop is already illegal. But you’re suggesting a cop, in the process of arresting someone, should allow someone to stand 1ft away from them as long as the purpose is to record them?

Yes, cops already have leeway to maintain a safe distance between themselves and spectators, but as others have said, this just puts an exact number on a fuzzy limit the courts have already supported.

Considering that would already be illegal, as the comment you're replying to states, I don't agree that has any relevance to this new law.

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