Hope everyone is staying dry and safe. Another win for the State of Florida at the Eleventh Circuit. After a series of protests opposing police violence, the Florida legislature amended Florida’s criminal riot statute. That led to challenges by various civil rights organizations. The challenges? Vagueness and overbreadth. Here is the statutory language:
A person commits a riot if he or she willfully participates in a violent public disturbance involving an assembly of three or more persons, acting with a common intent to assist each other in violent and disorderly conduct, resulting in:
(a) Injury to another person;
(b) Damage to property; or
(c) Imminent danger of injury to another person
or damage to property.
Fla. Stat. § 870.01(2).
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What about a quiet riot?
ReplyDeleteCome on. Feel the noise.
ReplyDeleteGirls rock your boys?
ReplyDeleteI believe it’s “C’mon” and “rockin’.”
ReplyDeleteDear Eleventh, in response to your questions, please see the following:
ReplyDelete'Black Lives Matter = Riot
Rally to End Bombing of Gaza = Riot
Protest of Big Oil = Riot
Unite the Right = Not Riot
Proud Boys Stop the Steal = Not Riot
Three Percenters AntiFacist Beatdown = Not Riot'
Love, Fla. SC
Eleventh:
'Seems reasonable to us.'
Reversed.
Wow! Seems to me this language encompasses every '70's and '80's rock concert I attended. Time to re-brand that 1980 'Stones classic to Lock Me Up.
ReplyDeleteJudge-shopping backfires again.
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