ShootSpeeders
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How can anyone support text-drivers???. Text-drivers are psychopaths with no concern for the safety of others and we need to throw the book at them. But blacks say no.
If u txt while u drive, FL wants u to stop. But will that add to racial profiling?
dec 5 2017 TALLAHASSEE
Support is building across Florida for a stronger law banning texting while driving, but some black legislators say they’ll fight the idea, claiming that it could invite more abuses by police.
A broad coalition of groups representing police, sheriffs, parents, retirees, doctors, businesses and others is mobilizing to pass a bill to elevate texting from a secondary to a primary offense, meaning police could ticket drivers who text, without needing another reason to stop them.
“It’s time to strengthen the law,” argues the FL DNT TXT N DRV Coalition. “Drivers who choose to text and drive are a danger not only to themselves, but to everyone else on the road.”
But African-American lawmakers, citing racial disparities in studies of traffic stops and acts of police violence against blacks, are wary of the idea.
“There’s a concern that it could be a pretext to stop certain individuals,” said Sen. Perry Thurston, D-Lauderhill, chairman of the 28-member legislative black caucus and an opponent of a tougher texting law.