A bill that would make it a crime to taunt police officers was passed on Thursday in Kentucky’s Senate. Senators voted 22-11 to pass Senate Bill 211, which was described by proponents as an anti-riot act. The legislation would increase violations that accused rioters face, in addition to to adding a section that says a person is guilty of disorderly conduct if they accost, insult, taunt, or challenge a law enforcement officer “with offensive or derisive words, or by gestures or other physical contact, that would have a direct tendency to provoke a violent response from the perspective of a reasonable and prudent person.” It would also define a riot as “a public disturbance involving an assemblage of five (5) or more persons which by tumultuous and violent conduct creates grave danger of damage or injury to property or persons or substantially obstructs law enforcement or other government function.” State …