These laws, like most laws in America, will be used to criminalize blackness itself. White police officers will disproportionately enforce this new felony hate crime statute against people of color. Conservatives will then say more people of color are being charged with this ridiculous felony because people of color resist arrest more. It's all so damn predictable. What I know is that when a young white kid who had too much to drink gets a little rowdy with the police, this law simply won't be applied to him. That'd simply be too much. Instead, Louisiana's already crowded jails and prisons will continue to be overstuffed with black and brown bodies who did not endure arrest in robotic silence — no matter how tight the cuffs or bogus the charge.