Claim: Did Mandela Barnes vote against a law that expanded penalties for 'battery and threats' against public officials?
Fact-check: Did Mandela Barnes vote against a law that expanded penalties for 'battery and threats' against public officials? - Wisconsin Watch
Verdict: yes. when lt. gov. mandela barnes — now the democratic u.s. senate candidate in wisconsin — was a state legislator, he voted against a 2015 republican-proposed bill that made it a felony to "intentionally cause bodily harm or threaten to cause bodily harm" to a judge, prosecutor, public defender or law enforcement officer acting in their official duties. the previous law designated only threats against judges and battery against judges and law enforcement officials as felonies.
Organisation: Wisconsin Watch
Author: Jacob Alabab-Moser
Date published: 2022-10-19T21:31:00