DeSantis pushes expansion of Stand Your Ground law as part of 'anti-mob' crackdown

[teach1st]

Source: Miami Herald

Gov. Ron DeSantis has drafted “anti-mob” legislation that would expand Florida’s Stand Your Ground law — a move that critics say will allow armed citizens to shoot suspected looters or anyone engaged in “criminal mischief” that disrupts a business.

Lawyers say it’s just one of the many troubling aspects of the draft bill being pushed by the Republican governor in response to police-brutality protests that erupted across Florida and the United States this summer.

“It allows for vigilantes to justify their actions,” said Denise Georges, a former Miami-Dade County prosecutor who had handled Stand Your Ground cases. “It also allows for death to be the punishment for a property crime — and that is cruel and unusual punishment. We cannot live in a lawless society where taking a life is done so casually and recklessly.”

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Other key elements of DeSantis’ proposal would enhance criminal penalties for people involved in “violent or disorderly assemblies,” make it a third-degree felony to block traffic during a protest, offer immunity to drivers who claim to have unintentionally killed or injured protesters who block traffic, and withhold state funds from local governments that cut law enforcement budgets.

Read more: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/state-politics/article247094007.html

[johnp3907]

1. Because you can't have enough Kyle Rittenhouses.

[rzemanfl]

2. Hey DeSantis, you motherfucker, just keep killing us with COVID like you have

been. It would be interesting if this bill were to be translated and published in all the European countries you hope tourists will come back here from when the plague is over.

Fuck you Governor.

[Mc Mike]

3. He means anti-'unarmed mob' crackdown.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

4. fuckers want to write the law

to remove penalties for their magats so they can justify the murders they want to commit. They got itchy trigger fingers and don't want to be held accountable for their fucking psychopathic behavior twords who the republicans say are the enemies of their authoritarian dream.

[soryang]

5. Big lie strategy by DeSantis

as the article points out near the end:

Florida did not have large-scale clashes between police and protesters like other states.

Looks like he's hoping for more Travon Martin like incidents to whip up his racist reactionary policies.

[teach1st]

6. He's seeking the presidency

Fascist Party

[keithbvadu2]

7. Preventative measures of course

[mdbl]

8. Floriduh has become a cesspool of political weirdos

I have no desire to ever visit there again.

[patphil]

9. Sounds like Desantis is advocating a Republican mob with legal authority to kill the opposition.

[geralmar]

10. Democrats can stand their ground too.

[Vivienne235729]

11. Absolute madness. SMDH....

[orangecrush]

12. Open season on democrats

Thinly veiled.