Earlier Monday Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed HB1, a new bill from the Florida legislature that establishes new criminal definitions under the anti-riot law. The House and Senate worked on the legislation for a year after Governor Ron DeSantis led the initial effort.
[HB1] “defines a “riot” as a public disturbance involving three or more people “acting with the common intent to assist each other in violent and disorderly conduct” that results in injury to another person, damage to property, or danger of injury or damage.
The law grants civil immunity to people who drive into protesters who are blocking a road, prevents people accused of rioting from bailing out of jail until after their first court appearance, and increases penalties for assaulting law-enforcement officers while engaging in a “riot.” It also penalizes local governments that interfere with efforts to stop a riot and allows law-enforcement agencies that face funding reductions to file objections.” (link)
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The anti-riot law titled “Combating Public Disorder,” creates a new crime of “mob intimidation,” enhance penalties for riot-related looting and violence and create an affirmative defense for individuals who injure or kill violent protesters. Polk County Sheriff Grady Judge spoke at the signing.
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Awesome!
A lot of people find themselves in a situation which is impossible.
Run them over?
Wait… can’t do that.
But let them continue?
Road to death.
That is a bit one-sided.
This sheriff is awesome………….watch his pressers on You Tube………entertaining and upliftng.
I watch them frequently, just for the entertainment value. Much better than anything you’ll find on regular TV. Sheriff Grady Judd knows how to tell a story.
There’s suspense, mystery, drama, justice – all tied up with common sense. Sometimes he even delivers a surprise ending with a brilliant smackdown of a stupid reporter. 😀
Sheriff Judd sometimes preemptively corrects the reporters’ headlines for them. 😀
He tells them that he knows how they’ll want to write them, and then he tells them how they should write them to be accurate!
I had wished that President Trump would’ve made Sheriff Judd a part of his administration. The man is gold.
Grady Judge is an awesome name for a sheriff.
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Grady Judd is an awesome sheriff.
I think it’s Grady Judd. That’s how I seen it spelled elsewhere.
Judge Dread. lol
Drokkit
The man is a true patriot and public servant for people of his state. Other governors need to take note and quit talking and start doing!
Other Governors do not have the; Character, Commonsense and most important Balls as does Governor Ron DeSantis.
Some will learn from him.
Likewise the Repubs in their State House and Senate, etc.
Well it gives American patriots hope. Also confidence we don’t have just one pony to ride. Trump provides the “what can be today”. DeSantis provides the “What will be tomorrow”.
Indeed, and PDJT needs solid allies who are public officials. He can’t do everything alone.
None of the sanity of Greg Abbott, TX or Ron DeSantis, FL will rub off on us in La., in between these two great states with our Democrat, tax and spend Governor, John Bel Edwards who had Barack Obama do robo calls for him prior to the last election and who sees the tax payer as a contributor to the Baton Rouge slush fund.
Are you sure there wasn’t fraud in that election?
The legislatures in other states also need to step up and present this legislation. RINO DeWine in OH would never proactively move to get this done.
I think I’ll move to FL.
Praying that the next thing is constitutionally concealed carry.
Concealed or open would be fine with me. The idea of having to ask the state pretty please can I excercize my constitutional rights is very irritating.
The Pirates charge you for it too.
Bingo
It’s not a RIGHT if you need permission to exercise it.
As per the most recent idiotic reasoning of the 9th Circuit with the Hawaii case that seemed similar to Peruta v. Sheriff Bill Gore (San Diego), we Citizens in the Western states under that Court CANNOT open or conceal carry (ie. “Bear Arms” ) because of their contrived and overwrought (and incorrect) review of 17th Century English laws and ignoring the Heller decision. So technically, you can buy a firearm…..but have to drive it home immediately without stopping while secured in a lockbox in your trunk and drive into your garage, close the garage door, and then lock it up in your home immediately… and then go to bed and not think about your gun ever again. Just watch Chief Coward Roberts not allow the appeal to be heard at SCOTUS.
People have a right to life and safety by Natures Law (from God’s design) and by the Constitution. We have the right to bear arms for safety to protect life liberty and property even against a lawless government.
Florida should also a form of criminal immunity for the same situation involving drivers and protesters sort of an automobile version of “STAND YOUR GROUND”!
Pretty sure it’s in the Bill.
He talked about it in his P.C. a few months back.
Ridiculous to think a driver has to sit there while his car is surrounded by Violent Nutcases yelling and screaming. Who the h*ll wants to wait until the windows get smashed and these goons are all over you?
Pedal to the metal *before* that happens.
A J-Turn allows you to reverse and change directions in the space of a two-lane road. It’s not scary and one of the best ways to get out of a bad situation.
This 1:50 min video shows how it’s done
That’s how it’s done with a manual transmission.
An automatic transmission requires a different technique…with much trickier timing.
Midway through the “drift” turn, you must shift to Neutral. As the vehicle comes further around and is facing the opposite direction from the start, shift into Drive. The trick is to not let the vehicle be moving forward on momentum after the drift turn while still in Reverse. That’s rather hard on the transmission….
99% of cars are automatic. Sounds like something you’d want to practice on some garbage car first before frying your transmission 100 feet from an even more pissed off crowd for trying to run them over (in their minds) at that point as they bash your car and drag out your family and beat them to death.
Know what you’re doing before you damage your own car. I personally, would just gas it. That’s what I’ve prepared in my mind if I was in the situation.
how about turn the steering wheel all the way to the left, then punch it, kicking the rear wheels loose. It should rotate if I’m not mistaken.
That’s far easier with a rear wheel drive than a FWD on a dry surface. Most vehicles today are FWD or AWD. Plus, I have no idea how this maneuver should be executed in an AWD vehicle such as an SUV. I’ve seen it done in videos but the vehicles were likely stunt cars and not stock. We’d need a professional driver to describe that.
Also, not all of today’s little 4 cylinder engine FWDs have enough torque to do that reliably. It will depend on your vehicles power-to-weight ratio, factored by how much weight is over the drive wheels.
good point. thanks
Call it the “Thump-Thump” Law!!!….. or “Human Speedbump” Law
Another benefit to living in the Sunshine State.
Love the bill that Governor DeSantis signed and Grady Judge’s support of it. Notice: the bill defines what a “rioter is” and does not call out the TINGE OF SKIN you hold when you are defined as a rioter.
A penultimate craft of REAL legislation.
In contrast I am still trying to digest Maxine Water’s and the words that come out of her mouth of late. To me, SHE is making “skin color” an issue and I really can’t figure that out. Woman made millionaire. Voted in on a “landslide” every time. For how many years? By who exactly? I suspect it is the machines every time.
Her opponent in this last election was awesome! Pointed out Maxine doesn’t even live in the district she has been “selected to” represent, which is , as pointed out by her opponent, IS A GHETTO.
I know I am so off topic to bring Maxine up as a topic. But the contrast between DeSantis and Water’ s are in a wrestling match within me. See the movie FIGHT CLUB.
No
But of course she’s making skin color an issue, since it’s the primary tool used by professional Street Organizers (Rules for Radicals-Saul Alinsky). Both Barry Obama and Hillary Clinton wrote their senior college thesis on Saul Alinsky/Rules for Radicals.
Agitate >>> Organize >>> Mobilize
(incite) >>> (BLM, Antifa, etc)>>> (Portland riots, Milwaukee riots etc..)
Hallelujah!!
Cannonball Run?
I think you are thinking about David Carradine’s “Death Race 2000.”
I suspect that movie will be mentioned in the legal challenges that will undoubtedly be filed.
Should be a National Law.
This is how you govern!
Yup, actually producing results. Not just tweeting and promising. Refreshing,
What a travesty that the lawlessness the DemoCommieFascists support with RINO support, requires laws to protect the innocent and enforce rule of law.
And what a Blessing that SOME will actually DO it!
It won’t be long before DeSantis start looking orange for the cameras. Love the bill. How long would it take for someone from the left to challenge it?
Good Luck proving that Rioters have more rights than peaceful people who are minding their own business.
I’m sure legal challenges are already in the works.
Why bother to go to FL and challenge the law when they can free reign to burn cities down in WA, MN, etc. It would only spotlight how it is supposed to be handled and put the Ds cities/states to shame on a national level. Naw. they won’t do it.
It’s about damn time!
In regard elimination of civil liability for running over the perpetrators of a blocked thru way—–Hip Hip HooRay.
<The law grants civil immunity to people who drive into protesters who are blocking a road>
My favorite section of the law.
One of my all-time favorite videos….
The music on that, LOL.
It’s sad that the Dems have led us down this path of becoming insensitive to the point of GLEEFUL when you see these f*ckers get what’s coming to them.
Never in my life did I think I’d get a laugh out of seeing someone hit by a car, etc.
But it is what it is.
“Move B get out the way.. get out the way” by Ludacris
Yeppers, I used to be that “Lord, forgive them for they know not what they do” guy.
Now I am more; uh Lord, can I borrow Joshua’s horn for a second. And while you are at it I could sure use David’s slingshot.
Much more Old Testament these days.
Ad rem’s video gives new meaning to that old SNL skit: The Coneheads
Now that is funny!
I laughed so hard that I got the hiccups!
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Thank you Ad ren that is great we all do not live in FL and usually the road is blocked so we can’t back up, but the cone works beautiful.
Thanks for sharing that.
Also one of my favorites, but, I found a new favorite the other day. Don’t think I had seen this one posted. On CFP post, there is also an Inmann bit not quite as funny as the real thing though, pure bovine squeel from this one
https://citizenfreepress.com/breaking/carjacker-gets-bodyslammed-squeals-like-a-pig/
Volume at 11
This is one of my favorite parts too. Cuz that situation would just terrify me.
I remember when he 1st spoke about wanting to do this a few months ago. It was a great P.C.
Happy as heck that it made it thru the Legislature as quickly as it did.
Black, white , NOBODY needs this crap in their neighborhood. Small businesses don’t need this crap. And I sure wouldn’t want to be surrounded by these goons driving down the road .
Love that no allowances are made for dipsh*t Dem Mayors and City Councils that allow this stuff. It makes the thing have TEETH.
Thank You Gov. De Santis and the FL. Legislature!
Time to get a DeSantis flag to hoist on the boat along with the Trump 2020 flag.
Well done Ron, that’s how you become known to the voters that might elect you President.
Kowtowing to the left has to stop.
But it’s all in vain unless the fraudulent electoral system is fixed by the individual States.
Above all, it’s a good way to protect Law Abiding people in the State of Florida.
Please stop doing press conferences with the enemy, Governor. They seek only sound bites to use against you.
And physical violence against you is most likely to occur in or around these scrums.
Hinckley blended in with the media covering Reagan, and no reporter saw fit to point him out to the Secret Service.
They are the enemy.
He handles them very well.
I’m fine with him doing that. Shows them for the A$$es they are.
Agree. He calls them out and then squashed them. It gives him good practice.
I’m not sure why, but youtube seems to have no sound lately for me on videos involving DeSantis. Even when I try to view it on youtube itself — the ads come in loud and clear.
Google has been muting or lowering the volume on patriotic vids for months now
Suggestion: Bypass Youtube’s interface and ads by using a download utility. They scrape the raw digital files and one can select the file type/bit rate desired. In my experience when playing the files offline the audio is fine and of course the players have more comprehensive volume and equalizer controls.
This also grabs controversial files before Youtube scrubs them. We’ve seen a lot of deletes and bans on Youtube in the last year or so especially.
I use “4k video downloader” for this. Works very well. I get lots of my music from YouTube, then run a different app that converts MP4 or MKV files to MP3.
please be specific. what is name of download utility.
youtube sucks, by the way
I didn’t mention name because people have many different platforms and operating systems; however, I’ve found JDownloader works great on the Apple OS platform, which is what’s I’ve historically used for desktop work.
With the Youtube plugin, a selection of options are offered for automatic selection, or one can manually select what files are downloaded and what definition they desire. Forex, some files don’t need 4K/1080P when 360P is fine. Some files will be better to have a MMA file, others don’t need them. Etc, etc. The utility does all that and operations can be queued for downloading from multiple channels/sites in particular volumes or methods. Very user customizable.
There are lots of utilities out there, IMO try a few and decide what works best for your personal situation. The one I suggested happens to be freeware but there are also licensed utilities or shareware options too. Good luck!
DeSantis is what a real opposition party office holder looks like. He doesn’t do Kabuki. He acts. You notice he is alone.
They should start a reward program for mowing down protestors
Just like the Python hunts!
No bag limits
The bigger the protestor
The bigger the reward!
That could get expensive. Some of those Antifa chicks are hefty.
Could be an uptick in brush guard sales in Florida.
Florida or not. Immunity or not. I WILL NOT BE Reginald Denny.
IDK if it made news here on CTH but some BLM bikers blocked a suburban street in one of the Minneapolis suburbs near the lake and one guy wasn’t having it, trying to get home and the bikers and other protestors accosted him when he got out of his car to confront them. A shoving match ensued and, predictably, the driver was hauled off by the cops. There’s video on Twitter, or was. I grabbed it while it was up.
I saw that video. If the guy had called 911 instead of getting hot-headed, he would not have been put in cuffs. But I do understand his frustration. But these days too many “law enforcement” yield to protesters before law-abiding citizens.
Yeah, I seen it yesterday at Gateway Pundit.
Out here in the West, over the past 20 years I have watched with growing concern Law Enforcement shift their focus from stopping criminals, to preemptively stopping you and me. It is just a fact of life now that I will be stopped and harassed on the tiniest pretense, after observing small swarthy people in decrepit automobiles with expired tags breaking every traffic law imaginable. They are ignored by LE, by both policy and prejudice, and WE, that’s you and I, productive members of society, are focused upon as object lessons for the rest of us.
LE knows that we can be depended upon to obey and defer to the Authoritah of the badge, because we were raised that way and learned from childhood to respect the laws of the country. We can be depended upon to show up on trial dates, and meekly bow to any fines or punishment meted out by the Court.
I take excruciating pains anytime I leave home now for years to provide No Probable Cause in my travels, religiously observing stop signs, speed limits, light bulbs on the vehicle, current license plates, seat belts clearly visibly worn, required “Papers, please” in hand, maintain rigorously my WPI (WyPeposInsurance) at whatever extortionate rate the insurance companies think they can get away with.
I do this because I know, in my soul, that I am a target in public because they know that I know that I have everything to lose. They prey upon that. Law abiding people are easy marks for a quota and revenue driven LE. A traffic stop involving a dented and sagging 90’s sedan with broken side view mirrors, one or more space saver spares fitted, and cracked glass carrying 8 individuals, who all declare “No habla Anglis” and have no papers or documentation will always result in the LEO simply shrugging, and the crew being dismissed to continue about their business. Our ‘immigrant community’ of ‘seasonal workers’ are so beautiful and special, don’tchaknow!
The essential Victor Davis Hanson, living in Calizuela’s Central Valley, writes regularly of this, as he steadfastly holds and tries to maintain his family’s almond farm as a viable business concern and family asset in the face of official dissolution.
It is a Hell of a thing to live with. We’ve. been demoted to Second Class Citizen.
I left my ancestral South 25 years ago because I was enraptured by the majesty, sheer beauty, absolute peace, and ubiquitous solitude of the West. Well, now. “The days have gone down in the West, behind the hills, into shadow… How did it come to this?”
I think it’s time to go Home.
Is it possible the police arrested him for his own safety?
Or Steve Utash. Let’s remember what a dozen black Detroiters did to that poor guy.
The *timing* on getting this Bill signed could *not* have been better!
Phew!!!!
Grady Judd rocks, as usual. And he supported Desantis’ primary opponent, RINO Adam Putnam. But I think he’s happy now.
Local news article on this and comments. The Dems voted against it. Anybody surprised?
https://www.local10.com/news/national/2021/04/19/gov-ron-desantis-holds-news-conference-in-polk-county/
Thanks for the link. Again, this commentator ASSUMES PEOPLE OF COLOR WANT THE FREEDOM to RIOT! Really? My neighbor across the street has a blackish tinge to their skin, and is scared as hell about anyone, who JUST WANTS TO FEEL FREE TO “EXPRESS THEMSELVES” when they feel FREE to harm another.
Our leaders do it every time round about election time. Stir the pot Over a GRIPE that presupposes BLACK people are still living as if they still just came off of a boat as a captured slave from Africa. This is the most RIDICULOUS ASSUMPTION I HAVE EVER HEARD.
America, as I remember learning, is a melting pot. Whatever our nationalities, or the circumstances but which our ancestors arrived, I think most are just happy to be alive. Oh the ethnic wars between the Slavs, the Italians, the Jewish, etc. America has been through and came to peace with that.
Really P$SSED off that once again (its a two year cycle re the election cycle) that the black lives become more important that than any other ethnicity that came to America, some by CAPTURE and SOME TO ESCAPE FACISM, or some other dark cloud hanging over them. I do think those that were brought to America in the slave trade have had the worst of it all.
I don’t know how p’oed I be as a person of any color to be USED as a PAWN in POLITICS. Which these daze is HOLD FAST TO YOUR VICTIM STATUS.
And Stacy Abrams was on the cover of a magazine at the grocery store today. The WOMAN IS HUGE. Wow! What a role model. Be ALL YOU CAN BE I guess, along side it was the headline “the AMAZING SERUMS FOR YOUR SKIN that are now AVAILABLE.” MonClaire I think the mag was.
These people are beyond a bend in their promotion of victimhood. This is a crime against humanity and they are making money off of it.
Can’t help myself.
Stuart Smalley and Michael Jordan
One state at a time baby! This is what real leadership looks like! You can clearly see the difference between love and hate. May God bless this courage and may it embolden others to right action!
Excellent! Finally support for law-abiding persons engaged in self defense & for officers of the law committed to upholding the Constitutional Rights of the People.
The communist LGBQWERTY, regardless of race, color or creed, is apoplectic . No more free passes for those that engage in criminal and violently borderline confrontational behaviors past the age of majority. MAGA, Governor DeSantis.
They should also have included a portion dedicated to elected officials- you know ones who hide behind their skin color. All the while they use their position to entice those to riot and cause mayhem, then using their skin color to shield them and the rioters. While claiming others are doing the same….
If my vehicle was surrounded by people who were hell bent on destruction I would consider that a clear and present threat to my life and would plow through them as fast as possible.
“Run em down, Ron” !!! Love it!! When a mob surrounds a person’s car–they’re in big trouble.
What’s this a Governor looking after his people. Watch the establishment opposition and their media partners try to destroy him.
Not one mask in that press conference.
Florida leads the way in our struggle back to a sane and safe life.
Important part of this bill is the part that clips the wings of the big blue cities. They have abused home rule or whatever it is called in your state to allow/encourage the riots. We need more of this. Statewide preemption on firearms law was the first step and this is the second.
Good catch. This keeps Dem strongholds like Miami from allowing BLMers to terrorize residents.
It’s as if the local voters WANT mobs to coerce Political cooperation.
Almost like the “Convert or Submit” policies of islam
I have a serious crush on Ron DeSantis! I smile every time I see him on the screen or in a video. May God bless and keep him and his family during this tumultuous time! We need more just like him and his can-do spirit! Paul Reveres and George Washingtons and Rush Limbaughs and Donald Trumps by the thousands! We can do this!
This is how it’s done when MAGA controls the State Legislature AND Governor seat.
All Blue State MAGA households should move to Red State America; we can consolidate our power and create a movement which is unstoppable. From Florida west to Texas and north to the Dakotas………..
DEMOGRAPHICS IS POWER, DEMOGRAPHICS IS THE FUTURE.
Let the good times roll.
Sounds good unless it is used against the people in the future protesting a commie takeover of Florida. Unintended consequences and all.
The Bill addresses RIOTING and Disruption, putting your A$$ in the middle of public places like streets, restaurants, peoples’ yards, etc. It says nothing about protesting and demonstrating.
“protest” and “demonstration” used to mean peaceful assembly, that is until the DemMSM got ahold of it.
Civil Rights never would’ve passed if MLK Marchers had pulled the sh*t that BLM/ Antifa do.
In fact, it seems that *perhaps* these orgs like BLM, Antifa were developed to do precisely that >>>> just keep the violence going and NEVER solve any problems.
Cuz, Lord knows they haven’t solved any of the problems they were supposedly addressing.
And the people who head up these orgs know that they never will. All it’s “good for” is unending disruption and violence in the cities that allow this stupid sh*t.
How long before Lawfare files a suit with an obama Federal Judge getting an injunction or stay to this common sense law? Wish Texas would adopt a similar law! DeSantis sure makes good ole Jeb look like he slept through his Governorship!
I’m glad Grady got THIS ONE right.
Lord knows, he totally failed when he arrested Pastor Terry Jones for planning to burn 2998 qurans in remembrance of the people who died on 9/11
https://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/pastor-arrested-burning-qurans-096696
The rest of the Country, at least the RED minded States, need to step up to the plate, back DeSantis and work to do what he is doing. PROTECTING THE CITIZENS not protecting the criminal element bought and paid for by the Lunatics of the Left…
Jesus, this man is great! Love the civil immunity provisions. VP 2024 maybe?
To Gregg Abbott: Take heed, Governor, a new poll shows Matthew Mcconaughey ahead of you; show some leadership instead of being led along, do something like this in Texas.
If all republican governors did this in their states that would be the end of the riots.
He seems to refer to Governor DeSantis as “our President,” which would certainly be ok with me.
Trump/DeSantis 2024
What is the affirmative defense contained in the bill? Can anyone explain? Is that referring just to the people allowed to drive through protesters?
And when I think of the POS we could have ended up with as governor, I get on my knees and give thanks for this incredible man. Florida was truly on the brink of utter disaster!
No doubt, Gov. DeSantis is a superb leader cut from the same cloth as President Trump! I love this legislation but DeSantis did not do it alone. It took many people working together over time. I love the way DeSantis gave all of them credit by letting them address the media. This was a great press conference with many moments of wisdom and humor. I enjoyed watching every minute of it and I look forward to electing President DeSantis in 2024!