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FL: Bill Targets Kids Who Post Photos With an Illegal Firearm on Social Media
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As a prosecutor, Sen. Jason Pizzo watched helplessly as 20 mothers of murdered children would meet every Tuesday at Miami-Dade County’s Northside police station to discuss their kids’ cases and provide each other support. “If you asked by show of hands, how many arrests or closures have been made and clearance rate for those murders, maybe one or two hands go up,’’ he said, and many of them knew or suspected their child’s killers but prosecutors didn’t have the evidence to prove it.
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"data shows that black children and teens in Florida are three times more likely to be threatened by a firearm than children of whites and other races"
They are threatened by other blacks in their predominantly black environment. But admitting that truth just isn't convenient, is it?
If enacted into law, this bill will face a 1st Amendment challenge it will probably lose. If the posting contains articulable threats, that creates reasonable suspicion and perhaps even probable cause (depending), but without that critical element merely posting such a picture is protected speech.
In the desperation to achieve the stated goal they toss due process restrictions out the window. |
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