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Black Lives Splatter!?!?
In the latest unhinged part of Magaworld, Florida republicans enacted a new law that claim is an anti-riot bill. It’s mainly concerned with cracking down on free speech and protests and suppressing more people of color from expressing their freedom of speech. One of the bill’s most controversial sections was protections given to drivers if they injure or kill someone protesting on Florida roads!
The Trumpworld politicians are saying this is just a way to protect innocent people that might accidentally run over people while they are protesting on public roads, but we all know where this is going. This is nothing but dog whistle territory for the unhinged nuts on the right to run over protestors. I have even heard of rumblings in Trumplandia about outfitting cars with spikes and other accoutrement to cause as much damage as possible at the next Florida protest.
This is from a 2017 Slate.com article so this isn’t a new thing:
Kempenich’s state House bill to give immunity to drivers who unintentionally hit pedestrians in the road failed, 41–50. The North Carolina House approved a similar bill in April, after protesters blocked streets in Charlotte after Keith Lamont Scott was killed by a Charlotte police officer, that would give even more leeway to drivers. Lawmakers in Texas and Florida have proposed the same. Tennessee state Sen. Bill Ketron, who…
