" to make it harder for the rest of us to deal with police abuses."
only if by "deal with police abuses" you mean "murder police officers"
What I find offensive about these sorts of efforts is the implication that police officers lives are more valuable than anyone else's.
Nor is someone's life that was taken by a police officer, cops already have "enhanced" punishments in jail or prison. The problem here is not that they want to expand who is covered by hate crime laws, the problem is having hate crime laws in the first place. If someone murders someone else it shouldn't really matter if they did it for this or that reason they should be dealt with in the harshest way the law allows.
Yes, hate crimes law are thought crime laws, used to imprison people for thinking or speaking differently :/