{"id":5621,"date":"2021-07-16T14:10:14","date_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5621"},"modified":"2021-07-16T14:10:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-16T14:10:14","slug":"desantis-asks-protesters-to-stay-out-of-florida-roads-in-reversal-on-anti-riot-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=5621","title":{"rendered":"DeSantis asks protesters to stay out of Florida roads in reversal on anti-riot law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“DeSantis pushed the \u2018anti-riot\u201d bill\u00a0<\/a>in the aftermath of last year\u2019s racial justice protests that spread across the nation \u2014 and even cited protesters blocking roads as a justification for the measure that includes extra penalties for people accused of participating in riots and violent protests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


But Democrats and other critics of the law \u2014 which is being challenged in federal court \u2014 accused DeSantis and other Republicans of supporting selective enforcement of the measure. They said the measure was designed to target Black protesters upset with police shootings. But now DeSantis and other GOP leaders are in a difficult position since they support the aims of many of the demonstrators backing Cuba in Miami and elsewhere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


This week, demonstrators blocked major roadways for hours in Miami-Dade County without any reports of arrests or citations. But the\u00a0Tampa Bay Times reported<\/a>\u00a0on Wednesday that two demonstrators in Tampa were held in jail overnight without bail because of a provision in the new law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Tuesday, DeSantis sidestepped a question<\/a> about whether authorities should arrest people blocking roads as part of protests in solidarity with Cuba. Those demonstrations popped up in several cities as Cuban Americans voice their support to Cuban protesters who are demanding an end to the authoritarian regime that has controlled the island nation for the past six decades.On Thursday, the governor reversed course and said that authorities could not \u201ctolerate\u201d people blocking roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s dangerous for you to be shutting down a thoroughfare,\u201d DeSantis said during a press conference with Florida GOP Reps.\u00a0Mar\u00eda Salazar<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Carlos Gim\u00e9nez<\/a>\u00a0calling on the Biden administration to help restore Internet access to Cuba. \u201cYou\u2019re also putting other people in jeopardy. You don\u2019t know if an emergency vehicle needs to get somewhere and then obviously it\u2019s just disrespectful to make people stand in traffic.\u201dDeSantis repeated his assertion that his \u2018anti-riot\u2019 bill was meant to crackdown on violent protesters.”\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n


https:\/\/www.politico.com\/states\/florida\/story\/2021\/07\/15\/desantis-asks-protesters-to-stay-out-of-florida-roads-in-reversal-on-anti-riot-law-1388405<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“DeSantis pushed the \u2018anti-riot\u201d bill in the aftermath of last year\u2019s racial justice protests that spread across the nation \u2014 and even cited protesters blocking roads as a justification for the measure that includes extra penalties for people accused of participating in riots and violent protests.<\/p>\n

But Democrats and other critics of the law \u2014 which is being challenged in federal court \u2014 accused DeSantis and other Republicans of supporting selective enforcement of the measure. They said the measure was designed to target Black protesters upset with police shootings. But now DeSantis and other GOP leaders are in a difficult position since they support the aims of many of the demonstrators backing Cuba in Miami and elsewhere.<\/p>\n

This week, demonstrators blocked major roadways for hours in Miami-Dade County without any reports of arrests or citations. But the Tampa Bay Times reported on Wednesday that two demonstrators in Tampa were held in jail overnight without bail because of a provision in the new law.
\nOn Tuesday, DeSantis sidestepped a question about whether authorities should arrest people blocking roads as part of protests in solidarity with Cuba. Those demonstrations popped up in several cities as Cuban Americans voice their support to Cuban protesters who are demanding an end to the authoritarian regime that has controlled the island nation for the past six decades.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, the governor reversed course and said that authorities could not \u201ctolerate\u201d people blocking roads.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s dangerous for you to be shutting down a thoroughfare,\u201d DeSantis said during a press conference with Florida GOP Reps. Mar\u00eda Salazar and Carlos Gim\u00e9nez calling on the Biden administration to help restore Internet access to Cuba. \u201cYou\u2019re also putting other people in jeopardy. You don\u2019t know if an emergency vehicle needs to get somewhere and then obviously it\u2019s just disrespectful to make people stand in traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n

DeSantis repeated his assertion that his \u2018anti-riot\u2019 bill was meant to crackdown on violent protesters.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[869,1210,471,111,288,942,362],"class_list":["post-5621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-black-lives-matter","tag-cuba","tag-florida","tag-laws","tag-police-accountability","tag-protesting","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5622,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5621\/revisions\/5622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}