One person is dead after two people were run over by a white pickup truck just as the Stonewall Pride Parade and Festival was kicking off in South Florida’s Wilton Manors neighborhood Saturday night, Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis confirmed. Trantalis, who saw the incident happen, described the event as a terrorist attack on the LGBTQ community. The incident took…
  • FloridaBoi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Didn’t Florida just pass a law allowing people to claim they were threatened and run them over?

  • crime [she/her, any]
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    3 years ago

    :deeper-sadness:

    Goddamn it can people in Florida stop hate criming the queer community please

    It fucks me up so much more cause I grew up there being gay as hell and I still have a ton of queer friends and comrades scattered across the state. The number of times I've had to scramble to check on them the last few years absolutely fucks me up way more than your garden variety desensitizing American tragedy

    • VernetheJules [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      https://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/o3tlv1/one_dead_after_two_people_run_over_by_truck_at/h2dqenw

      Redditor speculating that Debbie Wasserman-Schultz may have been a target because her car was nearby, wtf

  • cawsby [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    https://twitter.com/GinaMBenitez/status/1406403749799735301

    • PermaculturalMarxist [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Blanket antipathy and dismissal of the southern states, where exploitation of the American working class is most acute and where most black and latino communities are concentrated, is definitely lib.

    • bort_simp_son [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      Listen to Episode 75: The Trouble with 'Florida Man' by Citations Needed Podcast on #SoundCloud https://soundcloud.app.goo.gl/zzQ5Q

  • fayyhana [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    I was actually down the street when this happened, no one had any idea of motivation at the time so a lot of people were just assuming the worst.