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This story is the first installment of a series on Florida Gov. Ron Desantis’ increasingly authoritarian policies regarding education and minoritized populations. On Saturday, Aug. 23, 21-year-old Ryan Palmeter murdered three Black people in a Jacksonville, Fla. Dollar General. The victims were 19-year-old Anolt Joseph “A.J.” Laguerre Jr., 52-year-old Angela Michelle Carr and 29-year-old Jerrald.
As a successful, popular leader in his state and current GOP presidential candidate, Gov. Ron DeSantis is often portrayed as a villain by the national media. After DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education Law, some in the media shared hyperbolic accounts of LGBT Floridians fleeing the state or considering it, as if their very lives were threatened by the legislation.