Miami Herald: “Gov. DeSantis should have just laid it on the line when a reporter asked about the hundreds upon hundreds of Cuban-American demonstrators and their supporters who shut down a portion of the Palmetto Expressway in Miami-Dade County. Instead, he deflected, talking about protesters in Cuba. Implicit in the question, however, was whether the governor’s vaunted anti-riot law – created in the wake of George Floyd demonstrations – would apply in the case of the demonstrators blocking streets and an expressway in Miami-Dade. Their cause is righteous, of course – bringing down Cuba’s oppressive and regressive regime. The law explicitly makes blocking a highway a felony offense. Worse, it gives civil legal immunity to people who drive through protesters who are blocking a road – basically, encouraging haters to do just that.”

“Demonstrators shut down State Road 826 in both directions Tuesday in solidarity with their counterparts in Cuba. Police obliged and redirected traffic. Mercifully, no one roared through the crowd in a vehicle. Everything was as it should be in a country that has a high tolerance for free expression. But, unfortunately, for the governor, the reporter’s question trapped him in the hypocrisy of his law, likely to be arbitrarily enforced. Honestly, we would have been more impressed if he had just responded: ‘Nah, the Miami-Dade demonstrators seeking human rights in Cuba have nothing to fear from my anti-riot law. We created it to subdue Black folks seeking human rights in the United States.'”