Yes, Police Intimidated Voters in Florida
2982 PM: Celeste [Quote] -- 1:11pm -- Fri, Aug 16, 19 pst
Celeste
Stacey Abrams is telling people that cops are gonna go into minority neighborhoods on election day to scare them from voting.She knows what she's talking about.
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In fact, we saw EXACTLY that sort of thing in FL in 2000.
"Several Florida voters reported seeing Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) troopers in and around polling places. Troopers conducted an unauthorized vehicle checkpoint within a few miles of a polling place in a predominantly African American neighborhood."
Source: "Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election - Chapter 2 - First-Hand Accounts of Voter Disenfranchisement" - US Commission on Civil Rights
https://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/ch2.htm
United States Commission On Civil Rights. (2001) Voting irregularities in Florida during thepresidential election.
[Washington, DC: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O] [Web.]
Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/2001344891.
Celeste
Stacey Abrams is telling people that cops are gonna go into minority neighborhoods on election day to scare them from voting.She knows what she's talking about.
____________
In fact, we saw EXACTLY that sort of thing in FL in 2000.
"Several Florida voters reported seeing Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) troopers in and around polling places. Troopers conducted an unauthorized vehicle checkpoint within a few miles of a polling place in a predominantly African American neighborhood."
Source: "Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election - Chapter 2 - First-Hand Accounts of Voter Disenfranchisement" - US Commission on Civil Rights
https://www.usccr.gov/pubs/vote2000/report/ch2.htm
United States Commission On Civil Rights. (2001) Voting irregularities in Florida during thepresidential election.
[Washington, DC: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O] [Web.]
Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://lccn.loc.gov/2001344891.
