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DemocraticPatriot

(5,410 posts)
Sat Sep 4, 2021, 05:00 AM Sep 2021

Anti-mask protesters show up at Florida school board member's home and cough in her face [View all]

According to a report from Florida Today, a Brevard County School Board member and her daughter were harassed in front of her home on Wednesday night by anti-mask protesters that ended with one protester coughing in her face at close range.

The report notes that Jennifer Jenkins has been under fire from local anti-vaxxers with calls for her to resign and some protesters calling her a "tyrant" for advocating pro-mask policies in schools.

Those attacks escalated on Wednesday when protesters showed up at her home.

Florida Today reports that Jenkins filed a report with Satellite Police Department after a protester coughed in her face. Jenkins also said a protester swung a flag at her.

Read more:
https://www.rawstory.com/jennifer-jenkins-school-board-mask-protest/


An anti-mask protester came to her home, and coughed in her face?!

That is arguably a threat to her very life. Nay, not just a threat, but a potentially deadly assault!

Florida has the "Stand your ground" law... It seems to me that someone attacked thusly would be legally justified, under that law, of defending themselves however they thought necessary. They would certainly be morally justified.

Threatening someone with exposure to COVID is a threat to their life. It's not "freedumb"...

In this case, it was clearly an assault.

I am OVER these people.

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Brainwashed mobs Dorian Gray Sep 2021 #1
Maybe we should start calling them lemmings wnylib Sep 2021 #6
I think that's brilliant. Dorian Gray Sep 2021 #32
I was just up that way and it is VERY red. Still have tRump signs up and I even saw mitch96 Sep 2021 #26
Fifty/fifty Claire Oh Nette Sep 2021 #30
Time to use Stand Your Ground against a potentially deadly assault royable Sep 2021 #2
Some fists need to be swung vercetti2021 Sep 2021 #3
I think I would just keep a can of bear spray attached to my hip... 2naSalit Sep 2021 #5
I would too vercetti2021 Sep 2021 #7
Indeed. 2naSalit Sep 2021 #8
A failed revolution vercetti2021 Sep 2021 #17
And that army is congregating here... 2naSalit Sep 2021 #18
I hate to say it but i believe yes they will overthrow our democracy without a real fight. HUAJIAO Sep 2021 #22
There are more of us. 2naSalit Sep 2021 #31
I like that idea. nt DemocraticPatriot Sep 2021 #10
"keep a can of bear spray " Our director of security was an ex NYC cop.. He said he mitch96 Sep 2021 #27
It isn't just ignorant mobs like this... 2naSalit Sep 2021 #4
I'm so glad you filed charges The Blue Flower Sep 2021 #11
Sure was... 2naSalit Sep 2021 #15
Omg what a terrible experience Alice Kramden Sep 2021 #13
I have a moderate to serious case of... 2naSalit Sep 2021 #16
If there's a real estate license board in your state.. viva la Sep 2021 #19
That's on the list of things... 2naSalit Sep 2021 #20
I've maintained anti-vaccers are giddy no_hypocrisy Sep 2021 #9
Good chance the cops are also Nazis, gab13by13 Sep 2021 #12
It's probably a good thing I don't live anywhere near there. DFW Sep 2021 #14
Post removed Post removed Sep 2021 #21
That sounds like something Nazis would do.. whathehell Sep 2021 #24
People who care about taking precautions against COVID aren't "stand your ground" types. knightmaar Sep 2021 #23
Nobody is eager, on our side of it. DemocraticPatriot Sep 2021 #33
This is assault Norbert Sep 2021 #25
That is asking to be shot. LiberatedUSA Sep 2021 #28
That asshole would have left horizontal from my Brevard relative's house. nt Baked Potato Sep 2021 #29
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