Florida Democrat: DeSantis has 'blood on his hands' after Jacksonville shooting
Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon (D) has issued a scathing rebuke of Gov. Ron DeSantis’s response to a white supremacist’s deadly rampage in Jacksonville this weekend.
Nixon, who represents the Jacksonville district where the shooting happened, told MSNBC’s Yasmin Vossoughian on Sunday that DeSantis has been leading “an all-out attack on the Black community with his anti-woke policies” and because of this, the GOP presidential candidate is responsible for Saturday’s violence.
“This is a governor who has done nothing but fan these types of happenings throughout our state,” Nixon said. “At the end of the day, the governor has blood on his hands.”
Nixon said that the policies DeSantis has been pushing have been “dog whistles to get folks up and riled up in the way in which it just happened.”
Ryan Christopher Palmeter, 21, opened fire in a Dollar General store Saturday afternoon, killing three people before shooting and killing himself. All three victims of the shooting were Black.
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/4174681-florida-democrat-desantis-has-blood-on-his-hands-after-jacksonville-shooting/
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