When a Black veteran began peppering Ron DeSantis with questions about recent gun policies in connection with the Jacksonville shooting, the Florida governor defended himself and talked over him before the veteran was eventually removed from the news conference altogether.
“I feel that you have enacted policies that hurt people like myself,” the veteran said, before mentioning the racist shooting at a Dollar General store last month, in which 21-year-old Ryan Palmeter shot and killed three Black customers before turning the gun on himself.
