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A Black activist is arrested before Ron DeSantis news conference: "Why am I being handcuffed?"
2022-01-04 00:00:00
Black activist Ben Frazier was arrested while peacefully protesting in a public space inside Florida state offices where Governor Ron DeSantis was about to hold a news conference on public health.
The first of two videos below show Frazier, from Jacksonville, speaking to a DeSantis staffer who told him to leave.
"You're attempting to stop us from gathering peaceably in a public building," Frazier said. "That, sir, is appalling and absurd. This is a public meeting, this is a public official, we have a right to be here. And we are not moving!"
He then asks where the governor is. "Is he going to run and hide? Or will he face the people?"
DeSantis, known for his hiding tactics as of late, did not appear before Frazier. Instead, law enforcement came in to handcuff and escort Frazier out of the building (and into a police car).
"Why am I being handcuffed? I have not done anything to anyone. Why am I being handcuffed," he says in the second video. "Am I being arrested?"
This wasn't in Putins's Russia. This is what Florida will look like if we keep electing leaders molded in Trump's image. I won't stop questions at a presser. I will submit to accountability. This is beyond political parties. Decency is on the ballot. pic.twitter.com/0LNKCNdy6E — Mike Harvey (@electMikeHarvey) January 4, 2022
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