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https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/florida-governor-ron-desantis-signs-141500732.html
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis Signs Anti-Protest Bill Into Law

CNN reports that the “Combating Public Disorder Act” creates several crimes connected to protest. One is “mob intimidation” and doxxing an individual or digitally publishing someone’s private information for the purposes of harassing that individual. If a person is convicted of battery against a cop, then the law calls for them to be imprisoned for at least six months. To push back against the ‘defund the police” movement, the law allows for appeals if municipalities reduce law enforcement budgets.

https://www.npr.org/2020/06/01/867532070/trumps-unannounced-church-visit-angers-church-officials Peaceful Protesters Tear-Gassed To Clear Way For Trump Church Photo-Op

President Trump wanted to walk from the White House through the park to the Episcopal church. Camera crews scrambled to keep up with him as he strode through the park, followed by his daughter Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner, along with Attorney General William Barr and other administration officials.

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/bloody-sunday-civil-rights-protesters-beaten-selma
On March 7, 1965, in Selma, Alabama, a 600-person civil rights demonstration ends in violence when marchers are attacked and beaten by white state troopers and sheriff’s deputies. The day's events became known as "Bloody Sunday."

The demonstrators—led by civil rights activists John Lewis of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Hosea Williams of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference—were commemorating the recent fatal shooting of Jimmie Lee Jackson, a 26-year-old church deacon, by state trooper James Bonard Fowler.