Posted on 01/07/2021 9:56:31 AM PST by rarestia
BRADENTON, Fla. - Gov. Ron DeSantis spoke about COVID vaccinations in Manatee County on Thursday but opened his news conference talking about Wednesday's violent pro-Trump protests in Washington.
Protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday and forced lawmakers into hiding in an attempt to overturn the results of the election.
DeSantis said he "100 percent" supports the right to protest but said "the minute that crosses over, there needs to be penalties."
He called the actions of protesters "totally unacceptable."
"Those folks need to be held accountable," he said. "It doesn't matter what banner you're flying under, the violence is wrong, the rioting and disorder is wrong. and we're not going to tolerate it in Florida."
U.S. Capitol Police said that 14 arrests were made, with three of those arrested from Florida.
"You can have strong views, you can be disappointed in the election, you can be disappointed in whatever," DeSantis said. "But you can't just go in and ransack public places like that."
You can listen to his full statement on the D.C. violence in the tweet below. We'll update this story as we get more information.
Before speaking about vaccines, @GovRonDeSantis addressed yesterday’s events in #WashingtonDC. He said behavior like that will not be tolerated here in Florida. @BN9 his full answer -> pic.twitter.com/piYYMXGapp — Angie Angers (@angie_angers) January 7, 2021
Now the left have a new Charlottesville lie to tell.
And I was thinking about him for President.
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So charge the invaders of the Capitol building with Tresspass and any damage they did.
BUT DONT Paint all the 250000 standing around outside with that crime.
YOU Santos, are ALSO to be held accounatable for YOUR perpetrating leftist lies with such ease.
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Pretty mild.
Careful, Ron...
These idiots just can’t keep their mouths shut...
I was impressed that Matt Gaetz had the balls to stand behind the podium and say that Antifa might be involved. He is the kind of guy we need on our side. Enough of the milquetoast pussies.
But the rock throwing and freeway shut downs across the nation and occupying blocks of businesses is all ok.
His version of Ransacking and my version of Ransacking differ.
The Traitors were back to work in that Building in mere hours. If large numbers of Antifa and BLM had done this the Traitors would have returned to a burned out cinder.
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