“We will kill you.”
Famously outspoken Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey has gone viral for that stark message to anti-Trump protesters with any potential designs on attacking his officers at a Saturday afternoon rally.
“If you throw a brick, a firebomb, or point a gun at one of our deputies, we will be notifying your family where to collect your remains because we will kill you, graveyard dead,” Ivey said at a Friday press conference. “We’re not going to play.”
Brevard added that protesters who encircle motorists should expect similarly unpalatable outcomes.
“If you try to mob rule a car in Brevard County, gathering around it, refusing to let the driver leave in our county, you’re most likely going to get run over and dragged across the street,” he declared.
The Republican Sheriff said that any assaults on law enforcement will trigger an array of unpleasant consequences.
“If you spit on us, you’re going to the hospital, then jail. If you hit one of us, you’re going to the hospital, jail, and most likely get bitten by one of our big, beautiful dogs we have here,” he warned.
Ivey was joined Thursday by Attorney General James Uthmeier, who said that Florida laws prohibit disorderly conduct at protests.
“Florida is the anti-riot state, and unlike California, we support law enforcement,” he said.
Nationwide “No Kings” gatherings are planned by objectors to the Trump administration and what they assert are its “authoritarian” leanings.
In Brevard, roughly 2,000 demonstrators are expected to mass in Cocoa at 11 a.m., a group that includes the Awake Brevard Action Alliance, the Brevard Progressive Coalition and other community organizations.
Closer to home, two protests are slated for St. Johns County, including one in St. Augustine and one along Race Track Road.
