This is turning murder into civil action. It is not only unconstitutional, it is highly illegal and if DeSantis thinks simply signing a bill makes it law, he has another thing coming.
According to Ron DeSantis, James Field, Jr. should be a free man. I don't think so. Ron DeSantis is desperately trying to the leader of the GOP and is failing royally. He is trying to distract from the fact his state spread SARS-CoV-2 throughout the country and quite possibly Europe and South America when he let Spring Break go forward without constraint. The people of Florida should impeach him on this legislation alone because he is literally turning automobiles into murder machines. That is a new identity the manufacturers have to contend with as well. Will Florida consumers demand ram bars as optional equipment or maybe just after factory additions. Literally, what that legislation does is change the Motor Vehicle Code into murderous statutes. You know all the drunk driving laws? Well, the lawyers have a new toolbox now. When is ramming with cars legal? And who is at fault, the person demonstrating or the murderer when it comes to car insurance?
Ron DeSantis is a Trump minion of the worst kind.
By Lizette Alvarez
James Fields Jr., (click here) who pleaded guilty to federal hate crimes, was sentenced on Friday to life in prison. Fields rammed his car into a crowd of anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring dozens of others.
Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, (click here) seldom passes up an opportunity to celebrate the Sunshine State’s greatness under his watch. Earlier this year, he told television viewers that cities in Florida looked nothing like Minneapolis or other cities that had struggled with protracted violent outbreaks following the death of George Floyd in police custody last May.
“You didn’t see here what you saw there,” DeSantis told Tucker Carlson on Fox News in January, echoing the sentiment more than once.
The governor was right — there were protests in Florida last summer, but local organizers worked hard to try to keep them peaceful, and local police mostly did a good job of preventing damage and injuries. The few incidents of looting or fire-setting that erupted were short-lived.
Yet, on Monday last week, as a jury deliberated whether to convict former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin of murdering Floyd, DeSantis signed into law a draconian, First Amendment-vandalizing measure supposedly intended to prevent looting, arson, blocking highways and “mob intimidation” (whatever that means). And seemingly just in case mobs planned to pillage Florida cities if Chauvin were acquitted, DeSantis immediately enacted the law, a rarity....
