Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has asserted that Florida drivers have a right to flee for their safety during riots, even if that means running over rioters.
The governor discussed the issue during an appearance on Dave Rubin’s podcast on Wednesday evening.
“If you’re driving on one of those streets and a mob comes and surrounds your vehicle and threatens you, you have a right to flee for your safety, and so if you drive off and you hit one of these people, that’s their fault for impinging on you,” DeSantis said.
DeSantis continued, “You don’t have to sit there and just be a sitting duck and let the mob grab you out of your car and drag you through the streets.”
“You have a right to defend yourself in Florida,” he added.
DeSantis explained that rioters have “no right to commandeer streets.”
“First of all, it’s just wrong; second of all, that has huge impacts on people’s quality of life,” he said.
“We have an absolutely zero tolerance policy for that,” DeSantis stated.