riot booster

riot booster (plural riot boosters)

1. One who engages in riot boosting.
   • 2019 March 6, Elena Saavedra Buckley, “South Dakota pushes bills to prosecute ‘riot-boosting’ ahead of pipeline construction”, in High Country News:

     The legislation would also establish a fund — with the acronym “PEACE” — to address extraordinary expenses for the state and its counties from the pipeline, including protests, with the funds collected from “riot-boosters.”

   • 2019 March 28, Nicholas Kusnetz, “More States Crack Down on Pipeline Protesters, Including Supporters Who Aren’t Even on the Scene”, in Inside Climate News‎, archived from the original on 4 June 2020:

     Several of the bills also allow prosecutors to go after people or organizations as "conspirators" or "riot boosters" for merely supporting or coordinating with others who violate the law. […] Someone can qualify as a "riot booster" even if they reside out of state and act indirectly "through any employee, agent or subsidiary." Anyone found liable would be responsible for three times the ordinary penalty.

   • 2020 February 21, “Editorial: Gov. Noem's crackdown on 'riot boosters' comes at a cost”, in Sioux Falls Argus Leader:

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   • 2020 June 1, Nora Benavidez, “First Amendment Rights—If You Agree With the President”, in The Atlantic:

     Legislators’s doggedness is appalling: In South Dakota, a bill was rushed through the legislature and signed quickly into law last year, establishing a civil action to sue “riot boosters,” defined as anyone who “directs, advises, encourages, or solicits” others toward “acts of force or violence.”

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