Oklahoma government Kevin Stitt (R) passed two bills tackling protests on Wednesday, just as protesters angry over the legislation raided the state capital, locking the chambers of the House and Senate their doors .
The group partially protested a bill that increases penalties for blocking roads and grants immunity to motorists who kill or injure demonstrators on the road. Another bill aims to limit police officers’ doxxing. Both bills worked their way through the Republican majority of the House and Senate before reaching Stitt’s desk.
Some protesters got into verbal disagreements with lawmakers. “You are a great shame to the whole country!” they shouted to the legislators. The group then tried to enter the Senate Chamber, which had locked the doors.
The group partially protested a bill that increases penalties for blocking roads and grants immunity to motorists who kill or injure demonstrators on the road. Another bill aims to limit the doxxing of police officers. The bill passed with a vote of 38-10 in the Senate and now goes to the office of Republican government Kevin Stitt.
The bill would make blocking the use of a public street a crime that could be published up to a year in prison or a $ 5,000 fine. The measure would also grant a motorist criminal and civil immunity if he kills or injures someone while on the run from a riot.
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Senator Rob Standridge, a Republican who wrote the bill, said he was called to action by an incident in Tulsa last summer where a pickup truck drove through a crowd protesting the death of George Floyd on the Tulsa highway. Some of those who protested were forced to the edge of the viaduct. Several were injured and one was paralyzed from the waist down. The driver, whose family was in the car, was not charged.
“The kids were huddled in the backseat fearing for their lives,” said Standridge. “That’s what this bill is about.”