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Activists across Florida are condemning the Florida Legislature s approval of House Bill 1, the so-called anti-riot bill that Gov. Ron DeSantis put forward last year.
The bill won the final approval of the Florida Senate on Thursday and has become one of the most controversial items of the 2021 Florida legislative session.
DeSantis proposed the new legislation following the Black Lives Matter protests that occurred across the country last year following the killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police. The bill was officially filed in the Legislature the same day as the Capitol Hill riot in Washington, D.C. This is a very robust package, DeSantis said when he outlined tougher penalties against protesters, most of which are contained in HB 1. I think what it s saying is we are not going to let Florida go down the road that some of these other places have gone.