The law in Florida already requires people to buckle up. But police can only cite them for the violation if they've pulled them over for another reason. My daughter was in a car. She was in the back seat. The people in the back seat are dead or quadriplegic.
Seat belts are the difference between life and death.
But black lawmakers argued it would give police an excuse to pull over minorities and the House's Republican leadership worked to defeat the measure. You're right, seat belts save lives. This is the racial profiling amendment. Several black lawmakers said they had to vote against the measure because of a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision that said that police can arrest and handcuff people for minor traffic offenses. Not all black lawmakers opposed it.