A Florida state representative was arrested on Friday for holding a sit-in protest outside Gov. Ron DeSantis‘s (R-FL) office against the state’s newly drawn congressional map.

State Rep. Angie Nixon, a Democrat representing the district that includes Jacksonville, started the protest around noon and remained there for five hours, attempting to stay beyond the office’s closing, until she was arrested. 

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