Why weren't SOS Cuba protesters in Miami arrested under Florida's new anti-riot law?

[TomCADem]

The anti-riot law was one of several championed by DeSantis appealing to his conservative base in the wake of Black Lives Matter protests — a law now being broken by the governor’s own supporters, and on roads under state jurisdiction.

https://www.local10.com/news/local/2021/07/14/why-werent-cuba-protesters-in-miami-arrested-under-floridas-new-anti-riot-law/

MIAMI – “All of a sudden you have people out there shutting down a highway. They start to do that, there needs to be swift penalties.”

Those were Gov. Ron DeSantis’ words back in April when he signed a controversial anti-riot bill.

On Tuesday?

“I think people understand the difference between going out and peacefully assembling, which is obviously people’s constitutional right,” DeSantis said on a day when South Floridians stood in solidarity with Cuban citizens’ protests by taking to the Palmetto Expressway and closing it down for hours.

[Jim__]

1. Selective enforcement of the law.

From wikipedia:

In law, selective enforcement occurs when government officials such as police officers, prosecutors, or regulators exercise enforcement discretion, which is the power to choose whether or how to punish a person who has violated the law. The biased use of enforcement discretion, such as that based on racial prejudice or corruption, is usually considered a legal abuse and a threat to the rule of law.

[cinematicdiversions]

2. Actually the first people arrested under the law are the Cuban protesters in Tampa.

https://www.tampabay.com/news/hillsborough/2021/07/14/cuba-protesters-in-tampa-held-without-bail-because-of-anti-riot-law-records-show/

[Crunchy Frog]

3. The law only applies to people the political leadership oppose.

Why would people expect anything different in Florida?