Daily News | Marina Ovsyannikova’s courage should make U.S. stop our own war against protests | Will Bunch
aimed at criminalizing political protest in this country — sometimes in ways that mimic the worst of Putin’s Russia.
Just last April, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis — a bellwether figure in the post-Trump-presidency Republican Party — signed what he called an “anti-riot law” that critics said wouldon legitimate and mostly peaceful protests. That measure increased penalties for blocking roadways — which commonly occurs in today’s non-violent demonstrations — while creating a new, vague crime called “mob intimidation,” and all but requiring that those arrested during a protest spend at least one night in jail.
“It’s fair to say our ability to protest is under attack,” Elly Page, the ICNL’s senior advisor, told me this week.
You may have noticed that many of the most extreme proposals are in GOP-dominated “red states,” and they closely align with the political backlash against the 2020 racial reckoning after Floyd’s murder, as well as the power of oil and gas lobbyists who are increasingly worried about climate-change activism.
Indeed, I wonder if Americans who’ve watched in awe in recent days as those estimated 15,000 Russians have been arrested for protesting Putin’s war in Ukraine remember that it was just two years ago that
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