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Does having Covid make you a domestic terrorist? From the article: Deja Lewis was walking down a sidewalk in Salem, New Jersey, in the early, frightening days
by 1cvmask 5y ago
Does having Covid make you a domestic terrorist?
From the article:
Deja Lewis was walking down a sidewalk in Salem, New Jersey, in the early, frightening days of the Covid-19 pandemic in April 2020, when she was stopped by police.
Lewis, 28, was arrested on warrants related to failure to pay traffic tickets, and an incident in which she “escaped” from a police vehicle. She had been a witness to a fight and left the back of the patrol car, her attorney said.
While she was in custody, police said she coughed “in close proximity” to officers, and said she had Covid-19, though no dashboard, body or in-station videos exist to prove the assertion either way.
The allegation has landed Lewis, who otherwise has no criminal history, with a potentially ruinous terrorism charge – one that could land her in prison for 10 years and leave her with a $150,000 fine.
- EdwardDiego 5y agoWelp, doesn't make you a terrorist, but perhaps a better comparison is people who have HIV and spread it knowingly. If her defense was "I told them as they were arresting me, but they dismissed me" then I think you'd have a good defense. But why wait until you got to the cells?