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riot booster en · NOUN

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1. One who engages in riot boosting.
   • 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 6, Elena Saavedra Buckley, “South Dakota pushes bills to prosecute ‘riot-boosting’ ahead of pipeline construction”, in High Country News:
   • (see title) 2020 February 21, “Editorial: Gov. Noem's crackdown on 'riot boosters' comes at a cost”, in Sioux Falls Argus Leader:
   • 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. 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 04 Jun 2020:
   • 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.” 2020 June 1, Nora Benavidez, “First Amendment Rights—If You Agree With the President”, in The Atlantic:

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