One Dead After Driver Plows Into Florida Pride Parade

[entremet]

Apparently #DeathSantis is trending on Twitter due to this. Seems to be due to some anti protest law he signed, but I don't have much info on it now and I"m not a lawyer so I don't know if this scumbag can use it as a excuse.

Fort Lauderdale Pride Parade Crash That Killed One Was ‘Tragic Accident,’ Officials Say

Police said the driver was a 77-year-old member of the Fort Lauderdale Gay Men’s Chorus who was driving the lead vehicle in the parade.

www.thedailybeast.com

One person was killed and another was critically injured Saturday when a driver plowed into a Pride parade near Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

The incident occurred during the Stonewall Pride Parade in Wilton Manors, a neighborhood about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale. A driver in a white pickup truck lined up with other vehicles taking part in the parade and then slammed on the gas, striking spectators, witnesses said.

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RIP to the victim. Hopefully, the other victim recovers.

 

[Brewm0nt]

The article you linked says the drive was a part of the Gay Men's chorus in Ft. Lauderdale and that it was likely an accident. Also being a parade, this wouldn't be covered in that anti-protest law, I would imagine....

 

[inner-G]

The article you linked says the drive was a part of the Gay Men's chorus in Ft. Lauderdale and that it was likely an accident.

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When I was reading this last night that's what all the articles were saying, too.

What a terrible thing to have happen

 

[entremet]

The article you linked says the drive was a part of the Gay Men's chorus in Ft. Lauderdale and that it was likely an accident. Also being a parade, this wouldn't be covered in that anti-protest law, I would imagine....

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Yeah, it's on the link. Just a weird story to connect the to. Other things to hit DeSantis with.

 

[waffleman]

Absolutely terrible. Though I wonder what the motives of the driver was as the article claims that the driver was apart of the Gay Men's Chorus "family", whether that means he was a member or something else related I'm not sure. The president of that collective seems to think it isn't LGBTQ related but I wonder how that could be an accident.

 

[Poodlestrike]

Seems to have been a terrible accident, and as such is locked under site policy and OP's request.