State Senator Chevrin d. Jones, a Democrat from Broward County and an outspoken critic of the law, said Mr. Serris. It was early to emphasize how important the bill was The day following the January 6 deadly riots in the US Capitol but no mention of that incident was made during the signing of Monday’s bill, focusing only on the summer protests.
That was evidence, he said, that the bills were targeting people of color for the purpose of punishing protesters. “This bill is racist at its core,” Mr. Jones said.
So far, three bills aimed at limiting protests have been signed into law – new laws in Florida and in Arkansas and Kansas that target protesters who want to disrupt oil pipelines. Others are expected to arrive soon.
In Oklahoma, Republican lawmakers sent legislation to Kevin Stitt to the government last week that would criminalize unlawful blocking of a public road and provide immunity to drivers who strike and injure protesters during a riot. last June, A pickup truck carrying a horse trailer drove through a crowd of Black Lives Matter protesters on a Tulsa The freeway is injuring many people and Paralyzed one. The driver, who said he did not charge due to fear for the safety of his family.
The bill’s author, State Senator Rob Standridge, said the Tulsa incident was Prompted him to obtain immunity for the drivers who strike Protesters. He said that on Tuesday he was not aware of the drivers charged after the attack on protesters in Oklahoma. “My hope is that this law is never used,” he said in an interview. Carly Atchison, a spokesman for Mr. Stitt, declined to say whether he would sign the bill passed with veto-proof majorities.
Tiffany Crutcher, whose twin brother, Terence Crutcher, was shot and killed in 2016 by a Tulsa police officer who was later acquitted on a manslaughter charge, said the Oklahoma proposal against people of color Represents Republican efforts to expand hostility to the Trump administration.
Dr. Crutcher said he believed that if Mr. Stitt signed the law, it would be applied in harsh terms to gun rights or against abortion against white protesters who protest racial injustice against them.
