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More than 200 people showed up Saturday outside Orlando City Hall in solidarity with the people of the occupied Palestinian territories after nearly two weeks of fighting between Hamas and the Israeli government led to a ceasefire.
Sunburn â The morning read of whatâs hot in Florida politics â 4.14.21
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Ron DeSantisâ COVID-19 response may be getting dragged through the mud by national media, but a new survey shows Florida voters are fans.
Polling firm Cygnal surveyed 800 likely general election voters in Florida and found 60% believe DeSantis has done a good job navigating the state through the pandemic. That beats the 58% approval earned by the Joe Biden administration and the 49% approval for
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Ron DeSantis gets high marks for his COVID-19 response strategy.
Floridians arenât just fans of DeSantisâ plans; theyâre fans of the man himself, handing him a plus-17 job approval rating halfway through his first term. The media, which has taken to thrashing DeSantis a few times in recent weeks, earned a minus-14 approval rating from the same set of voters.
During lunch at East Ridge High School, Tom Brown is surrounded. You won’t go through a lunch without three or four kids hanging off our golf cart, talking to us, said Brown, a school resource deputy.
Most students regard Brown, 60, and Dep. Jason Williams the other law enforcement officer assigned to the Clermont school as steady influences. It s a common theme for the 30 men and women assigned by the Lake County Sheriff s Office to serve as school resource deputies (SRDs).
They handle security, but that s not all not by a long shot. When incidents such as what occurred at Eustis High School make headlines, the public could get the wrong impression, said Lt. Christie Mysinger, the school resource commander for the sheriff s office. Deputy Billy Brown used his stun gun to subdue a 15-year-old girl there on Jan. 26 after she struck him several times and they fell to the ground.
‘I Don’t Want to Hear It’: Florida School Board Confronted Over Relationship Between School Leaders and Students After Black Girl Is Knocked Unconscious
A now-viral video out of central Florida depicted Taylor Bracey of Osceola County being body-slammed by a Liberty High School school resource officer on Jan. 26 as the 16-year-old Black girl reportedly was involved in an altercation with other students. This week citizens and several community organizations showed up to a Lake County School Board meeting in Tavares, Florida, to voice their concerns about the relationship between school leaders and Black students.
“There’s absolutely no reason why a police officer, a grown man, should ever knock a girl unconscious or taze a student,” said David Caicedo, the president of the Florida Student Power Network, referencing both Bracey’s case and that of another black girl who was tasered by a school resource officer at Lake County’s Eustis High School on Jan. 26.