Florida Governor Ron Desantis booed at vigil as hundreds mourn more racist killings
Hundreds of people gathered Sunday at prayer vigils and in church, in frustration and exhaustion, to mourn yet another racist attack in America: this one the killing of three Black people in Florida at the hands of a white, 21-year-old man who authorities say left behind white supremacist ramblings that read like “the diary of a madman.”
Following services earlier in the day, about 200 people showed up at a Sunday evening vigil a block from the Dollar General store in Jacksonville where officials said Ryan Palmeter opened fire Saturday using guns he bought legally despite a past involuntary commitment for a mental health exam.
Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis — who is running for the GOP nomination for president, who has loosened gun laws in Florida and who has antagonized civil rights leaders by deriding “wokeness " — was loudly booed as he addressed the vigil.
Why is Desantis allowed to lie so blatantly? He encourages this behavior daily!
I also have no sympathy for him getting targeted for this, when all he had to do, after one of these attacks, is denounce the white supremacy that has taken root in Florida.
Just one little press speech: "I do not condone white supremacy in my state and they will find no safe harbor here."
Instead, he hired a white supremacist for a campaign assistant, knowing his ties, gets a video posted with the "Black sun", still does not call out white supremacy.
He reaps what he sows.
He fired the guy who posted the video, isn't that what you want? Is there any proof this guy was hired with the campaign aware of ties to Naziism?
Whats the old saying, "if it walks like a goose and it talks like a goose, then its a nazi?"
And even if DeShithead aint a nazi himself, well im of the opinion he deserves to be dehydrated and forced to walk across the mojave during peak summer for his actions at gitmo. So I dont really care what his ideology is.
(Except by elected leaders and the laws they pass. Also they'll be targeting people based on gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, religion, party affiliation, or anything they determine to be "woke" or "socialist")
Just like all freedom-loving Americans
This crowd did call him out on his bullshit.
That’s probably code for “We won’t let this be classified a hate crime. Stop targeting white people with your wokeness”
I hate this fucking timeline.
He's a politician, that's why