Fourteen people are facing misdemeanor trespassing charges and are banned from the Florida Capitol for the next year after they were arrested while protesting in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office on Wednesday.
The people who were arrested were part of a much larger human rights group -- called the Dream Defenders -- thatThe demonstrators said they wanted to protest DeSantis’ approach to governing and demanded to meet with him.to clear the building. Many of them left, but others stayed, locked arms and started singing.
“Once the building closes, unless you have an office in the Capitol, you’re not allowed to be here,” Florida Department of Law Enforcement spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said, citing Department of Management Services policy. The 14 arrested were charged with misdemeanor trespass and were booked into the Leon County Jail, Plessinger told theThe arrests were made by the Florida Capitol Police and Florida Highway Patrol, she said. The protesters have since bonded out of jail.
As this was happening, the House and Senate were meeting, and passed an expansion of the controversial “Parental Rights in Education” law, which the demonstrators call “don’t say gay.”
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