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Rhiannon12866

(205,332 posts)
Thu Oct 14, 2021, 02:02 AM Oct 2021

Florida School Board Member Details Terrifying Harassment By Anti-Maskers - The Last Word - MSNBC



Jennifer Jenkins, Brevard County Florida School Board member, joins Lawrence O’Donnell to discuss the harassment she has faced for supporting masks and why “it only takes one person to terrorize you.” Aired on 10/13/2021.


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Florida School Board Member Details Terrifying Harassment By Anti-Maskers - The Last Word - MSNBC (Original Post) Rhiannon12866 Oct 2021 OP
k&r Demovictory9 Oct 2021 #1
I agree. The cruelty that TFG has unleashed is unbelievable - and it's getting worse. Rhiannon12866 Oct 2021 #2
Jennifer is very impressive NJCher Oct 2021 #3
She's also very brave, what she endured sounds terrifying, yet she retained her composure Rhiannon12866 Oct 2021 #4
It took the police one and a half hours to respond to a crowd with guns outside her house? Ligyron Oct 2021 #5
There need to be consequences for terrorizing public servants. 2naSalit Oct 2021 #6
I felt the same way, I couldn't believe there weren't severe consequences Rhiannon12866 Oct 2021 #7
Isn't she in Florida? 2naSalit Oct 2021 #9
Trying to save magat lives is a dangerous proposition. Irish_Dem Oct 2021 #8
This woman's courage deserves public recognition RVN VET71 Oct 2021 #10
Nevertheless, she persisted. Harker Oct 2021 #11

NJCher

(35,669 posts)
3. Jennifer is very impressive
Thu Oct 14, 2021, 04:01 AM
Oct 2021

She ran and served for all the right reasons. We are indeed fortunate that people of her calibre are willing to take on this job.

Every day the news brings us accounts of this bullying, intimidating, menacing behavior by enraged right wingers.

The U.S. needs a societal psychiatrist.


Rhiannon12866

(205,332 posts)
4. She's also very brave, what she endured sounds terrifying, yet she retained her composure
Thu Oct 14, 2021, 04:06 AM
Oct 2021

Who would have ever thought that bullies in this country would be attempting to scare and intimidate those serving on school boards?! Only those who "follow" TFG...

Ligyron

(7,632 posts)
5. It took the police one and a half hours to respond to a crowd with guns outside her house?
Thu Oct 14, 2021, 07:08 AM
Oct 2021

Making threats in the presence of her young daughter? Carrying weapons?

“ when police break the law, then there is no law. Just a fight for survival“. Billie Jack

If the police won’t respond to threats like this in a timely manner - then maybe some somebody else or two needs to see just how skilled or even how willing the wanna be Rambo terrorists are at using those weapons against people who aren’t just defenseless women and children.

There are people with the skill sets needed to confront and defeat those trump loving cowards who would gladly show up to protect that brave woman, her family and their property.

Oh, and they sure as shit don’t vote Republican either.

2naSalit

(86,610 posts)
6. There need to be consequences for terrorizing public servants.
Thu Oct 14, 2021, 07:10 AM
Oct 2021

Actual consequences that they can't just shrug off until the next victim comes along.

Rhiannon12866

(205,332 posts)
7. I felt the same way, I couldn't believe there weren't severe consequences
Thu Oct 14, 2021, 07:28 AM
Oct 2021

But now the entire country knows about her experience.

2naSalit

(86,610 posts)
9. Isn't she in Florida?
Thu Oct 14, 2021, 07:40 AM
Oct 2021

That covers half of it right there. That state's government is run by an agency of tfg like it was one of his shadow companies, just like Montana is doing.

RVN VET71

(2,690 posts)
10. This woman's courage deserves public recognition
Thu Oct 14, 2021, 08:10 AM
Oct 2021

It’s hard to face snarling animals snarling soiling your home, threatening you and your family, without either running away or running for your rifle.

All of the maddened, rabid mob attacking her, threatening her, and figuratively smearing their feces on her home need to be outed publicly. I mean it. Where, oh where, are the news crews to film and interview these beasts, to get them to identify themselves to their own neighbors and family? Where are the police to protect her from their threats and vicious acts against her -- walking by her daughter’s bedroom window snarling language fit only for the sewer.

She’s a model for all people who love freedom -- real freedom, not the freedom to shit on your neighbor -- and justice.

I hope she is able to continue, but evil has a way of wearing you down.

(Oh, and can I give a big F**k You to Tucker Swanson for encouraging these subhumans to file child abuse claims against people who believe in masks and vaccines? I know that rich twit will never be called to task for incitement. I only hope he gets caught up and drowned in the backwash of his own evil, the evil he has spewed into a tidal wave for his viewers and fellow travelers.)

Harker

(14,018 posts)
11. Nevertheless, she persisted.
Thu Oct 14, 2021, 01:05 PM
Oct 2021

republican'ts can't prevail in a contest of ideas.

They can only win by violence, and the threat of violence... by lying and shouting.

Jennifer Jenkins is a very admirable person.

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