hurricane proof window. the gun jammed. he abandoned the gun and fled the scene. governor scott is continuing his tour across florida trying to encourage lawmakers to vote yes on his $500 million massive plan. in that plan, he proposes that the state law be 21 years old to purchase again. the florida house has subpoenaed all responding law enforcement agencies for the day and the district for all information related to the massacre. there s a lot of rumors and allegations swirling here on the ground, neil, about law enforcement reaction that day. we re investigating it and now the florida house is as well. neil? neil: thank you very much, mat. very good reporting. in the meantime, i want to bring a florida republican state representative in. representative, thank you. i know you ve been busy legisla.
sheriff that they would face federal charges. but in the midst of heightened national tensions issues involves police use of force and community of color, this strategy of peaceful engagement with this group of armed white men has prompted questions by many who see a despaiisparity i law enforcement response. why a more talk, less action policy for men armed with real guns and what appears to be a shoot first, ask questions later with people like john crawford and 12-year-old tamir rice? all that, as we seek ways to reduce the likelihood of interaction with police ending with a death because of the police. but the law enforcement reaction to oregon s ranchers is rooted in its own very unique history of violence. he writes, it s worth noting the extension to which the rice shooting and many others are
occupiers, prepared to stay in the building for weeks, even possibly years. how do you see this playing out? well, i see it playing as a very dangerous situation when you ve got people with armed weapons such as what i ve seen with these folks carrying, a.r. 15s, long guns, flak vest and so forth. a lot of these people, when you talk about militia, a lot of the people are prior law enforcement or had law enforcement training. you re talking about a serious situation here. when we look at i ve been involved as u.s. marshal, i remember ruby ridge. waco. and waco, of course. the bottom line is you don t know. when people are carrying guns and talking about hunkering down and they will take action, then you have to believe them. okay. earlier i spoke with our justice correspondent even perez, and this is what he said about some of the law enforcement reaction
the influence they have not just over the city but over the world, it s about time they did something. i appreciate your time here on the the ed show. thanks for joining us on the phone. i appreciate you talking about this. appreciate it so much. thank you. dr. peterson, your response to the reaction over the st. louis rams demonstration? yeah, i mean, i really don t understand it. i mean, obviously, i don t understand the law enforcement reaction because it seems so pointed and negative, it seems they are exposing their own sense about the situation. in order for us to accept the idea that this is a lie, that he had his hands up, that means we have to discount at least 16 witness testimonies in a grand jury process that we feel has been obscured in the first place. we can t relitigate the grand jury process, ed. if they want to do it again or give us a more trans parent trial by jury process, then
should not be used in normal crime situations. when asked if the senator was retracting his shoot to kill fleeing liquor store robbery suspects with drones nonsense, the press secretary was forced to lie. quote, not retracting, end quote, is what she said. yesterday rand s father ron paul finally gave the world his long awaited take on law enforcement reaction to the bombing in an op-ed for a libertarian website entitled liberty was also attacked in boston. ron is a much more consistent libertarian than rand, who is surely the slowest student of libertarianism in the paul family, but ron lies just as much as his son, and just as blatantly, and always has. the first word of ron s op-ed piece is a lie.