New Jersey is among the first states to consider making it a crime to issue a ‘credible threat to infect another with Covid-19’ or similar disease
New York — Accused criminals across the US have started using the threat of deadly Covid-19 infection as a weapon in attacks on police, retail clerks and grocers trying to keep the nation fed during lockdown.
In Florida, a man coughed and spat on police and threatened to spread the virus as they responded to domestic violence calls to his home. He faces up to five years in prison on federal charges of perpetrating a biological weapons hoax after his test results came back negative. Advocates for HIV-positive people said states drafting such laws should be careful not to make them so broad that they punish poor and minority communities, as studies show HIV criminalisation has, according to the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy at the UCLA School of Law.Over the past four decades, at least 26 states passed laws to criminalise HIV exposure.
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