Kentucky GOP’s New Bill Decriminalizes Use of Deadly Force Against the Unhoused

“I’m just ashamed that this bill even came into fruition,” a Lexington council member said.

Republican lawmakers in Kentucky introduced a bill last Tuesday that would criminalize homeless encampments and expand the state’s Stand Your Ground law to allow property owners to confront unhoused people with a gun. The bill, dubbed the “Safer Kentucky Act,” already has received more than 45 Republican co-sponsors and the Kentucky State Fraternal Order of Police has committed to testify in...

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