"Open Season": Heather Heyer's Mother Slams New Laws Giving Immunity to Drivers Who Hit Protesters

Many of the anti-protest laws pushed by Republicans include measures that provide civil or criminal immunity to drivers who hit demonstrators with their vehicles. A pending Oklahoma measure would offer both. It's declaring open season," says Susan Bro, whose daughter Heather Heyer was killed in 2017 when a white supremacist plowed his car into a crowd of counterprotesters at the Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville. Since when do we allow the public to become judge, jury and executioner? Because that's what this amounts to: Let's go hunt protesters."