Three people were killed in the shooting.
Footage from several angles shows the governor ― who is also running for president ― getting jeered by the crowd.
Jacksonville City Councilwoman Ju’Coby Pittman asked the crowd to settle down and put political parties aside.
“It ain’t about parties today,” she said. “A bullet don’t know a party.”
Critics called out DeSantis for making it easier to carry firearms in the state and for his divisive “anti-woke” policies.
“This divide exists because of the ongoing disenfranchisement of Black people and a governor, who is really propelling himself forward through bigoted, racially motivated, misogynistic, xenophobic actions to throw red meat to a Republican base,” Rudolph McKissick, senior pastor of the Bethel Church in Jacksonville, told the Associated Press.
Police identified the gunman as 21-year-old Ryan Palmeter, and said he had a Nazi symbol on his weapon.
“He hated Black people,” Sheriff T.K. Waters said at a press conference on Sunday.
Palmeter, who killed himself after the attack, also left behind a racist manifesto.
“The manifesto is, quite frankly, the diary of a madman,” Waters said. “He was just completely irrational. But with irrational thoughts, he knew what he was doing. He was 100% lucid.”
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