Credit: by Monivette CordeiroA Florida Republican has re-filed a measure to penalize local governments attempting to remove or destroy Confederate monuments and other historic memorials. The push to remove Confederate images emerged in 2015, after white supremacist Dylann Roof killed nine Black people in the Mother Emanuel AME Church a in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof had posed multiple times with a Confederate battle flag leading up to the mass shooting. In addition, the state stopped flying the Confederate flag over the State House. In 2023, Florida Republicans first attempted to pass the measure to ban historic monuments being removed, damaged, or destroyed.