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A Louisiana man faces a felony hate crime charge for allegedly yelling sexist and racist slurs at a police officer, in what appears to be the first application of the state’s “Blue Lives Matter” law.
Raul Delatoba faces charges of damaging property and disturbing the peace after being accused of breaking a window at the Royal Sonesta Hotel in New Orleans’s French Quarter on Monday.
His additional hate crime charge after calling a female officer a “dumb a-s c--t” and a black officer a “dumb a-s n----r” is thought to be the first application of a law increasing penalties for those who attack law enforcement, according to The Times-Picayune.
While the slurs could be seen as only racist or sexist attacks, a warrant seen by the newspaper says that the hate crime charge was based on an “attack on individuals based on their race, sex, and occupation.”