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Tampa’s NBC affiliate reports:
Gov. Ron DeSantis voiced his support for Daniel Penny, the Marine charged in the chokehold death of Jordan Neely, in a tweet Friday.
“We must defeat the Soros-Funded DAs, stop the Left’s pro-criminal agenda, and take back the streets for law abiding citizens,” DeSantis wrote in a tweet with a fundraiser for Penny’s legal funds. “We stand with Good Samaritans like Daniel Penny. Let’s show this Marine… America’s got his back.”
DeSantis’ tweet sparked controversy, with some lauding the governor for standing with Penny and others attacking him for supporting what they called vigilante violence. Other Twitter users questioned DeSantis’ use of the term “Soros-funded” as a potentially antisemitic dog whistle.
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We must defeat the Soros-Funded DAs, stop the Left’s pro-criminal agenda, and take back the streets for law abiding citizens. We stand with Good Samaritans like Daniel Penny. Let’s show this Marine… America’s got his back.
https://t.co/uQXZuT19Mo— Ron DeSantis (@RonDeSantisFL) May 13, 2023
Why is Florida’s murder rate 65% higher than New York’s murder rate?
Bad luck? The humidity?
Or maybe deciding to make it easy for criminals to get guns is more “pro-criminal” than making it hard for criminals to get guns. https://t.co/pgBSq8Dj23
— Chris Murphy ? (@ChrisMurphyCT) May 13, 2023
Since the summer of 2020 & Rittenhouse there’s been this escalation in the GOP explicitly embracing white vigilante violence https://t.co/GQAnVFWO1C
— Christopher Mathias (@letsgomathias) May 13, 2023
this talking point of “Good Samaritan” i’ve seen several places is truly perverse; I guess I forgot the part in that parable where the samaritan strangles the traveler to death https://t.co/jW9HjhzE7R
— John Ganz (@lionel_trolling) May 13, 2023
“But a Samaritan, as he traveled, came where the man was; and when he saw him, he decided he was dangerous so put him in a chokehold until he died.” https://t.co/HFbFPzlwCn
— Peter Manseau (@plmanseau) May 13, 2023
Thank you Governor DeSantis!
Patriots: please consider donating to the defense of this Good Samaritan protector, I just did.
Daniel Perry is being persecuted by the corrupt, Soros-backed leftist agenda, let’s help. https://t.co/64NqNw8Y7O
— Steve Cortes (@CortesSteve) May 13, 2023
This guy killed a person for screaming on the NYC subway. The man killed Jordan Neely didn’t hit anyone, stab or shoot anyone. He just yelled. But DeSantis and the right support Penny because he was a white man who killed a Black man. It’s that simple. https://t.co/6yTS469exe
— (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) May 13, 2023
Stunts like this aren’t dog whistles. GOP governors like DeSantis and Abbott are openly encouraging lawless vigilantism and murder of “undesirables.”
It’s cynical. It’s dangerous. And there should be political consequences for it. https://t.co/Pm3uI1LgKR
— Walker Bragman (@WalkerBragman) May 13, 2023