Florida activist handcuffed while trying to attend DeSantis news conference
Source: Washington Post
Ben Frazier is handcuffed by a member of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office after refusing to leave a room where Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) was to hold a news conference in Jacksonville on Jan. 4. (Bob Self/AP)
By Lori Rozsa
Today at 6:18 p.m. EST
The handcuffing of a Florida community activist who wanted to sit in on a news conference Tuesday with Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) quickly overshadowed the governor’s daily message criticizing the Biden administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Footage of Ben Frazier being handcuffed in Jacksonville spread across the Internet, leading Democrats to criticize the governor for the community organizer’s detention.
DeSantis’s news conferences, in which he often blames the Biden administration for holding up monoclonal antibody treatment doses, are usually tightly controlled. But Tuesday’s event at the Duval County Public Health building went far off script when Frazier, president of the Northside Coalition of Jacksonville, refused to leave the room where a podium was set up for the governor and state surgeon general to speak.
Frazier said he wanted to listen, then talk to DeSantis about the pandemic and the “antiriot” bill that the governor signed into law last year. The Northside Coalition is one of several groups that have sued the DeSantis administration over the new law, which they say violates the First Amendment by placing limitations on public demonstrations.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/01/04/florida-news-conference-handcuffs/
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and then achieve that purpose ...
I can admire your political activism (and commitment) - but it's hard to summon any outrage or sense of mistreatment in that particular context.
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