When the couple arrived at Jenkins‘s home, the teen was waiting outside, Judd said. The woman told investigators Jenkins, who was drunk, tried to hand her husband a gun and asked him to shoot him.
The man refused, and Jenkins pointed the gun at his own head and said “I’m fixin’ to get ready to die,” the sheriff told reporters.
When Jenkins fired the gun at the ground, the couple fled with the teen and the woman called 911.
Winter Haven police Sgt. Joshua Dentel and other officers found Jenkins inside a screened porch, smoking a cigarette and holding his right hand over his pocket.
By Gordon Byrd
Apr 19, 2021
WINTER HAVEN Governor DeSantis, surrounded by legislative leaders, Cabinet members and law enforcement, signed what has been called the anti-riot bill at the Polk County Sheriff s Office.
He signed it as closing arguments got underway in the trial of Derek Chauvin, the fired Minneapolis police officer charged in the violent death of George Floyd. Unrest, including violent protest, broke out in the wake of Floyd s death last May.
DeSantis and other speakers, including CFO Jimmy Patronis and Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd, referenced unrest in Minneapolis, Portland, Seattle and other cities. They said the bill sends a message that Florida backs the blue in the face of calls to defund the police.
Gov. Ron DeSantis signs Florida’s controversial ‘anti-rioting’ bill into law ‘It is the strongest anti-rioting, pro-law enforcement piece of legislation in the country,’ DeSantis says
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Gov. Ron DeSantis holds news conference in Polk County. (WPLG)
POLK COUNTY, Fla. – Gov. Ron DeSantis signed his long-promised anti-rioting legislation into law on Monday during a news briefing in Polk County.
DeSantis first announced his plan in September alongside Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd and he returned to the county for its signing.
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“We put out a vision for the state to maintain being a law and order state,” DeSantis said. “We saw really unprecedented disorder and rioting throughout the summer of 2020, and we said that’s not going to happen here in the state of Florida.”
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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) signed a new anti-riot bill into law on Monday while surrounded by different state law enforcement agencies in the aftermath of widespread unrest last year and potential riots this year stemming from the Derek Chauvin trial verdict. If you look at the breadth of this particular piece of legislation, it is the strongest anti-rioting, pro-law enforcement piece of legislation in the country, DeSantis said at the press conference. There’s just nothing even close.
House Bill 1, known as the Combating Public Disorder Act, increases penalties for existing crimes committed during a violent assembly, and protects the communities’ law enforcement officers, and victims of these types of acts, DeSantis office said in a press release.
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