A.G. Gancarski
Though rioting in Florida has not been the main story in the nationwide protest of the police killing of Minneapolis’ George Floyd, one House Republican managed to create an angle.
Rep. Anthony Sabatini, a state Representative from Howey-in-the-Hills, opined on how the civil unrest in the streets of Minneapolis should be handled on Friday night.
“Lock up every one of these disgusting, lawless thugs destroying the city of Minneapolis,” Sabatini counseled on Twitter before adding more legal advice.
“They should each be arrested and prosecuted to the FULL extent of the law,” he added. “Shame on the politicians that pander to this destruction!”
Lock up every one of these disgusting, lawless thugs destroying the city of Minneapolis.
They should each be arrested and prosecuted to the FULL extent of the law.
Shame on the politicians that pander to this destruction!
— Rep. Anthony Sabatini (@AnthonySabatini) May 30, 2020
House Democrats responded on Saturday morning, with Rep. Shevrin Jones taking issue with Sabatini’s use of the word “thugs” in particular.
“You mean these thugs, Rep?”
Jones linked to an article from a Minnesota news outlet in which Gov. Tim Walz addressed rumors of “white supremacists and drug cartels” present during the unrest in the streets of the Twin Cities.
Jones had some backup soon enough from his caucus, with Rep. Cindy Polo opining “I mean of course that’s who he meant!! He has shown us who he is so I believe him.”
Polo did not detail her response, but Sabatini’s complicated relationship with race includes being photographed in blackface as a youth. As well, he reportedly dressed like a ‘cartoon Mexican.’
Though Sabatini’s tweet uses loaded language, it did not meet the threshold of action from Twitter, which has taken to putting “fact checks” on recent incendiary tweets from President Donald Trump.
Florida Republicans have a history of sorts of achieving notoriety for their reactions to riots in American streets.
As violence of a similar sort filled the streets of Ferguson, a former Republican party official in Duval County urged “fire hoses” to “knock those thugs over” since they “probably need a shower anyway.”
7 comments
John Kociuba
May 30, 2020 at 11:55 am
Figures the apologists for planned Communist riots by international Socialist Organization funding gets their minions in the black community to promote Soviet Negro Republic doctrine.
All loyal to the destruction of the “racist white document” the United States Constitution!
“No borders, no walls, no U.S.A. at all!” Remember? ANTIFA apologists bashing Hon. Representatives like Anthony Sabatini is poetic.
ANTIFA was created by BOLSHEVIK COMMUNISTS in 1920s Germany to overthrow Monarch Republic.
The goal of Communism is to decimate America’s family units by creating fear, economic instability, unintelligible public education, propaganda media, destroy Christianity, until Government becomes your God!
Once seeds of Communism are planted in soil of a Republic they will continue growing strangling all freedom and life around them, until one day, met with a massive unpredictable overwhelming overly aggressive force.
Ward Posey
May 30, 2020 at 2:09 pm
Sabatini needs to go back to the land of his facist ancestors and try and resurrect Mussolini another cowardly , olive oil soaked bum.
Sonja Fitch
May 30, 2020 at 12:08 pm
Must be one of the goptrump cult of the Boogaloos. White supremacy and Nazi leanings. Yeah you!
Jonathan Boogaloo
May 31, 2020 at 11:11 am
The Boogaloo is not connected to Trump or race. The Boogaloo is what happens when the government pushes people too far. You might say a Boogaloo is going down right now. Anyone telling you it is about race is trying to further the divide between us to keep control.
Palmer Tom
May 31, 2020 at 9:57 am
Why is anyone ever surprised by anything Sabatini says?
He’s an embarassment.
Richard Stark
May 31, 2020 at 11:32 am
Rep Sabatini continues to make inappropriate comments and votes. If he cannot acknowledge this, a primary challenge is needed in this GOP district.
John Kociuba
May 31, 2020 at 11:34 am
Florida Politics is a hard left pro Communist organization that deletes comments. They delete plenty of mine!
Fact: None of the academic lab monkey comments above live in Lake County.
Fact: All these scum have enjoyed the protections, low taxes, clean, affordable housing, free college education, pro 2nd Amendment, pro family way of life based on RACIST WHITE FLORIDA POLICY! GET IT?
If Florida ever falls to Communist left? Florida will turn into New York City or California! Crime. Filth. Over taxation. Hell on earth!
Oppression? Really? Majority of Americans including minorities are big fat pigs! Yes. Hard to claim “oppression” in 2020!
You’re oppression exists in your mind! It is a delusion! Anyone could start employment at a Wawa after high school building up their roth/401k for 30 years and retire close to a millionaire with managed life style.
GET THE MEMO! “A GHETTO HUSTLE IS A GHETTO HUSTLE!
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