Posted on 07/09/2022 8:42:56 AM PDT by Morgana
LAKELAND, Fla. —
A 13-year-old girl was arrested by Lakeland Police during an abortion rights protest on the Fourth of July.
Lillie Johnson told News Channel 8 she will not be deterred from exercising her First Amendment rights after video of her arrest went viral.
“If anything this has encouraged me more to fight for the freedom of anybody and everybody. No matter what, no matter who,” Lillie said.
Lillie’s mother, Lauren Johnson, recorded video Monday of Lakeland Police officers detaining her daughter at Munn Park.
“It’s important to use your voice and to use it peacefully and appropriately, and I’m just so proud because that’s exactly what she did,” Johnson said.
Lillie said she returned to the protest against the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe V. Wade after being in police custody for an hour.
Johnson’s mom and attorneys said the teen is charged with violating the city’s noise control ordinance because she was using a megaphone.
Lakeland Police declined to share the arrest affidavit because of the girl’s age.
“Since the recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, we’ve had hundreds of people peacefully assemble across our City with few isolated incidents,” Lakeland Police said in a statement. “Officers are in attendance to assure a safe and secure environment for those exercising their rights while doing so in accordance with Florida state statutes and city ordinances.”
Florida Agriculture Commissioner and Democratic candidate for governor Nikki Fried shared the mom’s video of the arrest on Twitter and it has been viewed more than 4.5 million times.
“She wasn’t hurting anybody,” Fried said in an interview with News Channel 8. “She wasn’t attacking anybody. She wasn’t being violent. She was speaking out about something that is going to impact her life.”
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Secularism is destroying people. Too bad they don’t realize they support sacrificing children to Moloch just like in ancient paganist religion.
Democrats and drug dealers frequently use children to perform tasks that might lead to arrest because as juveniles, there won’t be an adult arrest record.
That is an important law she violated. It is what proactively protects Floridians from the horrid screeching of Greta Thunberg.
Speaking of abortionists...We need one of those Trump posters that says “...I am in the way of them coming after YOU.” Only with the “you” being a little black baby. That is exactly the people Maragaret Sanger was wanting to eliminate with Planned Parenthood, as well as the poor in general.
It is best I am not living in a place like that.
I would never fit in.
It wasn’t at all like this when I moved here many years ago. I don’t understand the big rush of people moving here now and bringing rents way, way up. They must not really know what they’re getting into.
Better government would help. We’re a one-party state and city, pretty much.
I understand.
Those coming here now are looking for a place of refuge.
They will find it, but when we get through this things will settle down.
As far as the real estate is concerned, we are going into a big recession. The mortgate loan companies are having big layoffs.
There will be a hard landing.
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