{"id":569123,"date":"2021-06-21T10:07:42","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569123"},"modified":"2021-06-21T10:07:44","modified_gmt":"2021-06-21T14:07:44","slug":"ft-lauderdale-mayor-tries-to-walk-back-terrorism-claims-over-pride-parade-accident-now-says-he-was-terrorized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ft-lauderdale-mayor-tries-to-walk-back-terrorism-claims-over-pride-parade-accident-now-says-he-was-terrorized\/","title":{"rendered":"Ft. Lauderdale Mayor Tries To Walk Back \u2018Terrorism\u2019 Claims Over Pride Parade Accident, Now Says He Was \u2018Terrorized\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fft-lauderdale-mayor-tries-to-walk-back-terrorism-claims-over-pride-parade-accident-now-says-he-was-terrorized%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=569123&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LGBTQ-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"  style=\"display:none\"><\/div>\n<p>Ft. Lauderdale mayor Dean Trantalis is trying to walk back shocking claims made shortly following a horrific accident at his city\u2019s Pride parade, now saying he was \u201cterrorized\u201d by the incident, rather than that the incident was a \u201cterror attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the Daily Wire reported over the weekend, \u201c[o]ne\u00a0man was killed while another was injured when the driver of a pickup truck accelerated and ran them over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWithin moments of the tragedy and before any information was known, Democrats and the media began treating it as a deliberate attack on the LGBT community,\u201d the Daily Wire noted, citing the mayor\u2019s immediate remarks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a terrorist attack against the LGBT community,\u201d Trantalis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2021\/06\/19\/2-people-hit-by-truck-at-pride-parade-in-wilton-manors\/\">told<\/a> WPLG. \u201cThis is exactly what it is. Hardly an accident. It was deliberate, it was premeditated, and it was targeted against a specific person. Luckily they missed that person, but unfortunately, they hit two other people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat person\u201d was later identified as Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL). It is not clear how close Wasserman-Schultz was to the incident and reports vary. In some, the truck \u201cnarrowly missed\u201d the Democratic legislator. In others, she was getting into a different vehicle, nearby not not immediate adjacent to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Leftists quickly followed Trantalis\u2019 lead, even blaming Florida governor Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dTrantalis\u2019 claims have been echoed across social media and in <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/state-watch\/559293-mayor-truck-running-into-pride-parade-was-a-terrorist-attack-against-the\">other media reports<\/a>, with many blaming a law signed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, as the cause of the accident,\u201d the Daily Wire reported. \u201cThat bill gives some legal protections to drivers who are sued after running into protesters when they felt they were threatened, but it does not, as many on the Left claimed Sunday morning, give people free rein to run down protesters, nor does give anyone the right to run over parade participants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the time of Trantalis\u2019 remarks, there was no evidence to suggest the incident was intentional. Further reports indicated that the incident was an accident and that the driver remained on the scene. He also appears to have been part of the parade, assigned to drive a vehicle because he could not walk the length of the parade route.<\/p>\n<p>Backlash against the mayor ignited almost immediately with commentators on social media blasting Trantalis for suggesting the incident was intentional.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday night, Trantalis tried to walk back his remarks with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/ft-lauderdale-mayor-terrorist-attack-pride-dean-trantalis\">separate statement to Fox News.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The statement did not include an apology.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast evening, at the start of what was to be a celebration of pride for the LGBT community and commemoration of our hard-won victories for equality, our community faced the worst of tragedies. The grief of our LGBT community \u2014 and greater Fort Lauderdale as a whole \u2014 is palpable,\u201d Trantalis told the network. \u201cI was an eyewitness to the horrifying events. It terrorized me and all around me. I reported what I saw to law enforcement and had strong concerns about what transpired \u2014 concerns for the safety of my community. I feared it could be intentional based on what I saw from mere feet away.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLaw enforcement took what appeared obvious to me and others nearby and investigated further \u2014 as is their job. As the facts continue to be pieced together, a picture is emerging of an accident in which a truck careened out of control,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The statement did little to quell criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow about an apology to your constituents and some self-reflection about what it means to be a leader during a crisis? You failed miserably,\u201d one commenter fired back on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis mayor saw a car accident and then made a public statement \u2014 with no evidence \u2014 that it was a terrorist attack. That is unacceptable for a public official,\u201d added another.<\/p>\n<p>The mayor\u2019s office has yet to issue an apology or clarification for his remarks. A request for comment to the mayor\u2019s office went unanswered.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ft. Lauderdale mayor Dean Trantalis is trying to walk back shocking claims made shortly following a horrific accident at his city\u2019s Pride parade, now saying he was \u201cterrorized\u201d by the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2280828,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LGBTQ-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Ft. Lauderdale Mayor Tries To Walk Back \u2018Terrorism\u2019 Claims Over Pride Parade Accident, Now Says He Was \u2018Terrorized\u2019","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-569123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/LGBTQ-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Ft. 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