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Republicans Respond to Black Lives Matter with Anti-Protest Bills


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Republicans Respond to Black Lives Matter with Anti-Protest Bills
Protesters demonstrate in Palm Beach, Florida, on Juneteenth, the holiday commemorating the end of slavery in the United States. Civil rights groups worry new Florida legislation restricting protest actions could suppress First Amendment rights.
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This story has been updated to clarify changes to penalties for drivers under state legislation.
Genee Tinsley helped organize rallies and marches in Palm Beach County, Florida, last summer to protest police brutality, demand racial justice and call for redirecting some police funding to social services.
Now she’s organizing an online forum to teach people about a Florida bill that would increase penalties for unlawful activity during a protest. The bill could give law enforcement broad discretion to declare a gathering a “riot” and charge participants with a felony crime. ....

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Washington GOP bill would limit neck restraints, activists want them banned


Washington GOP bill would limit neck restraints, activists want them banned
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Tim Gruver, The Center Square
 | February 03, 2021 09:00 AM
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Polls show most Americans want to see an end to the use of neck restraints that killed George Floyd of Minnesota, but Washington activists say new legislation will accomplish the opposite.
Neck restraints, or strangleholds, are promoted by American police as safe ways of rendering suspects unconscious by reducing blood flow to the brain with a carotid restraint compressing two large blood vessels on either sides of the neck. Chokeholds, by contrast, cut off a person s airflow by applying pressure directly to the neck and throat. ....

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