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CA Governor Signs Bill Permitting Citizens To Ignore Police Calling For Help

Hank Berrien
CA Governor Signs Bill Permitting Citizens To Ignore Police Calling For Help
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On Tuesday, California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill that permits adults to refuse to help a police officer who needs help making an arrest.

The bill, SB 192, sponsored by Sen. Bob Hertzberg, (D-LA), was written to repeal the California Posse Comitatus Act of 1872; Hertzberg called the old bill a “vestige of a bygone era” that forces citizens into “an untenable moral dilemma,” as reported by The Sacramento Bee.

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