Downtown Tampa
Sunday, June 7, 2020
Saturday, June 6, 2020
Florida GOP votes for weapons of mass destruction
Plant City, FL Peaceful #BlackLivesMatter Protest
Thursday June 5, 2020
Changing the atmosphere of riots to peaceful protest. With "FREE HUGS".
Music and talk of what needs to happen and be changed with the amount of police brutality that continues to happen around every single state of country.
Chants roared the streets of Plant City as everyone marched from the water fountain between Evers St. and Collins St. Down to the court house where some chose to speak with the officers and the children went and gave them all hugs.
Invites to help make change by going together as a community to the City Hall meetings was one of the things requested.
Stay safe out there and keep thing's peaceful.
Florida Nazi Change of Heart
According to Ocala News, the photographed man with the neo-Nazi tattoos is Dylan Gentry, a Florida man who reportedly appeared at a local George Floyd protest to show solidarity with demonstrators and to renounce his prior neo-Nazi beliefs.
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“All a Nazi has to see is change. Not just change of heart, but change of the times we’re in,” said Gentry on a Facebook post. He explained that his tattoos did not represent his beliefs and indicated he wanted to show that with his actions.
SIGN ON: A Letter to Remove All Armed Officers From Hillsborough County Schools
our schools. HERE
Friday, June 5, 2020
Florida GOP Victor Christ and Gwen Myers
Gwen Myers takes Victor Christ's money. The guy who voted to keep the
Confederate monument.
Confederate monument.
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The same Victor Christ who appointed David McAllister to the Diversity Board. The same David McAllister who doxxed most of us who protested in support of removing
the monument!
the monument!
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More on this republican HERE
Unprovoked Use of Force by Tampa Police Department
The recent reports of the Tampa Police Department’s unprovoked use of force against protestors peacefully exercising their constitutional rights to freedom of assembly and to freedom of speech cannot go unchecked. At least three incidents that have come to our attention.
The first occurred on the afternoon of May 30, 2020, when the Tampa Police Department reportedly used rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse a peaceful gathering of protestors at Cyrus Greene Park. The second occurred on the evening of June 2, 2020, and into the early morning hours on June 3, 2020, when the Tampa Police Department used the same aggressive and dehumanizing tactics to disperse crowds of peaceful protesters in downtown Tampa.
The third occurred on June 1, 2020, when the Tampa Police Department reportedly used force against an unarmed black man while on the grounds of Tampa General Hospital. While this last incident is unrelated to any protest, it is equally disturbing.
Let us be clear: we strongly condemn the use of force or violence by law enforcement against any protestor who peacefully exercises their rights to the freedom of assembly
and expression.
and expression.
We also condemn the use of force or violence by law enforcement against unarmed individuals whose only crime appears to be living while black.
To reiterate our recent joint statement against the rioting by those who crossed the line from civil disobedience to destruction, we maintain our united call for peace. But make no mistake: in order for our community to experience the healing that it desperately needs, all stakeholders must be
equally committed to doing their part to attain peace. This means that law enforcement must be held accountable for its actions as well.
equally committed to doing their part to attain peace. This means that law enforcement must be held accountable for its actions as well.
It is time for a new era of common-sense reforms to ensure greater transparency in policing and stronger limits on the use of force.
Hence, we, the undersigned black elected officials, call on
Mayor Jane Castor and Tampa Police Department Chief Brian Dugan to end the wrongful practice of the use of force during otherwise peaceful protests immediately. We further call on Mayor Castor and Chief Dugan to provide with respect to the aforementioned incidents an
accounting of the officers’ actions, a report on what corrective action, if any, TPD has taken based on complaints about the officers’ conduct and/or feedback from the community, and an explanation to the community as to why TPD used force against protestors engaged in peaceful and lawful actions in the first place.
Mayor Jane Castor and Tampa Police Department Chief Brian Dugan to end the wrongful practice of the use of force during otherwise peaceful protests immediately. We further call on Mayor Castor and Chief Dugan to provide with respect to the aforementioned incidents an
accounting of the officers’ actions, a report on what corrective action, if any, TPD has taken based on complaints about the officers’ conduct and/or feedback from the community, and an explanation to the community as to why TPD used force against protestors engaged in peaceful and lawful actions in the first place.
Further, the officers involved in the incident at
Tampa General Hospital should be relieved of duty at this time until the investigation into their conduct is complete.
Tampa General Hospital should be relieved of duty at this time until the investigation into their conduct is complete.
Senator Darryl Rouson,
Representative Dianne Hart
Representative Fentrice Driskell
Representative Wengay “Newt” Newton
County Commissioner Lesley “Les” Miller
City Councilman Orlando Gudes
School Board Member Tamara Shamburger
Representative Dianne Hart
Representative Fentrice Driskell
Representative Wengay “Newt” Newton
County Commissioner Lesley “Les” Miller
City Councilman Orlando Gudes
School Board Member Tamara Shamburger
Citrus Taliban: Benjamin Horbowy
state senate seat
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He was in Tallahassee with his mom to watch live as Trump walked from the White House to St John’s. “My mother just shouted out, ‘God give him strength! He’s doing a Jericho walk!’”
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“My mother started crying. She comes from a Pentecostal background, and she started speaking in tongues. I haven’t heard her speak in tongues in years,” he said. “I thought, look at my president! He’s establishing the Lord’s kingdom in the world.”
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The Tallahassee Democrat newspaper quotes him as saying that where he comes from, LGBT stands for “liberty, guns, Bible, and Trump.” HERE
Florida Never
---In 2014, voters pass Amendment One, which put into the state Constitution a requirement that Florida set aside some $10 billion in tax money over the next 20 years, to be used for purchasing environmentally sensitive land, creating the largest state-based conservation initiative in U.S. history.
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It passed with overwhelming support – 75% of the votes cast were in favor of it.
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Yet Florida’s legislators ignored it – just as they have ignored such prior voter-driven referendums on class sizes and allowing ex-felons to vote — and continued shortchanging Florida Forever. HERE
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