People were spilling out of Indiana Lt. Gov Micah Beckwith's town hall and past two people who had been arrested in Newburgh on Wednesday night when they received a stern warning from a Warrick County Sheriff's deputy to "get back."

"If you're not 25 feet, you're going to go to jail," the official says in video captured by a Courier & Press reporter. "It's a state law."

There are state laws that say just that. Two in fact. But the first has been deemed unconstitutional, while the second is still being enforced despite being similar to its predecessor.

The first "buffer zone" law was written by Evansville-area Rep. Wendy McNamara and signed into law in 2023. It stipulated that any person "who knowingly or intentionally approaches within twenty-five (25) feet of a law enforcement offic

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