PLEASE! NO Beatings!

 A beating victim is a Beating victim is a beating victim.

Apparently not in Alabama.

From an ALCOM story: 

"Senate Bill 20 would expand the list of protected professions to include “current or former” public officials, meaning an attack against them could trigger felony charges.

The legislation is also expected to add traveling health care workers, pharmacists, and social workers.

Professions already designated as a specialty class under Alabama law include police officers, firefighters, corrections officers, emergency medical service personnel, utility workers, teachers, and postal workers. Assaults against those workers while they are working in their jobs carry enhanced penalties.