Civil Disobedience: Teen Shooting Survivors Shake Up Capitol

By JASON DEAREN Associated Press, The Macomb Daily
Thu, 02/22/2018 - 7:40am

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) - Holding hand-scrawled signs and wearing black "Parkland Strong" T-shirts, the 40 teenagers filed warily into a committee room at Florida's state Capitol on Wednesday. They hadn't been invited and the lawmakers they were intruding upon were in the middle of a meeting. Timid yet determined, they stood their ground.

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