Indiana Amends Self Defense Law to Allow Citizens to Shoot Police Officers‎

From [HERE] Indiana has become the first state to allows its residents to shoot at police if they feel their property is being unlawfully breached by an officer.

The changes come from Republican Governor Mitch Daniels, who altered the state’s Castle Doctrine, which states, “people have a right to defend themselves and third parties from physical harm and crime,” to include public servants, including the police.

“In enacting this section, the general assembly finds and declares that it is the policy of this state to recognize the unique character of a citizen’s home and to ensure that a citizen feels secure in his or her own home against unlawful intrusion by another individual or a public servant,” the legislation now reads.

Proponents of the Fourth Amendment, which protects Americans from unlawful searches, applauded the move. Citing the 2011 case of Barnes v. State of Indiana, the Indian Supreme Court ruled that a man who assaulted an officer dispatched to his house had broken the law before there was “no right to reasonably resist unlawful entry by police officers.”

Second Amendment backers also welcomed the legislation. The National Rifle Association (NRA) has lobbied heavily for a revision of the Castle Doctrine that protected citizens from police who entered private without a warrant.

Not everyone was happy with the law’s passing. Police officials worry Indiana will turn from an alleged police state to an all-out warzone. Sergeant Joseph Hubbard tells Bloomberg. “Somebody is going get away with killing a cop because of this law.”