Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) declared that divers may hit protesters without facing charges if they are approached by a mob.
“We also have a policy that if you’re driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle, and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety,” DeSantis said on “The Rubin Report.”
“And so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you,” he declared. “You don’t have to sit there and just be a sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets. You have a right to defend yourself in Florida.”
The comments come as anti-Trump “No King” protests are planned for this weekend.
“In America, we don’t do kings,” the group’s website states. “They’ve defied our courts, deported Americans, disappeared people off the streets, attacked our civil rights, and slashed our services. The corruption has gone too. far. No thrones. No crowns. No kings.”
“No Kings is a nationwide day of defiance. From city blocks to small towns, from courthouse steps to community parks, we’re taking action to reject authoritarianism—and show the world what democracy really looks like,” the site adds. “We’re not gathering to feed his ego. We’re building a movement that leaves him behind.”
“The flag doesn’t belong to President Trump. It belongs to us. We’re not watching history happen. We’re making it,” the group notes, declaring that they are “showing up everywhere he isn’t—to say no thrones, no crowns, no kings.”
