Florida Republican lawmaker offers bill that would ban civilian police oversight

https://web.archive.org/web/20231217103515/https://www.wlrn.org/law-justice/2023-12-14/florida-ban-civilian-police-oversight-panels

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JohnDoe_1492@lemmynsfw.com · 15 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Lemme guess... White guy?

conducts Google search

Yup. White guy.

adhdplantdev@lemm.ee · 21 pts · 2y

Come now let's not bring race into it. He's probably also a Christofacist.

GBU_28@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Yikes. No need for that. The dude is a fascist, that's demonstrated by his actions / opinions. And that's enough to go on.

Mango@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y

Thank fuck. Some rationality is nice to see around all these racists and tribal nuts.

treadful@lemmy.zip · 13 pts · 2y (1 reply)

Cops are civilians. Elected officials are civilians. What are they even banning?

maynarkh@feddit.nl · 11 pts · 2y

Quite interestingly, only US English definitions consider the police non-civilians, as opposed to the British and most of the world's definition.

Wonder why that might be.

800XL@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

It's so the last step needed by the GOP to make the police conversion to their personal brownshirts.