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Are you seriously asking this in good faith ? There are dozens of cases of people who were arrested. Please do your own research. It will barely take you ~10 mi

Are you seriously asking this in good faith ? There are dozens of cases of people who were arrested. Please do your own research. It will barely take you ~10 mins. East Harlem - poor district - no health officials only harsh police enforcement, >20 people arrested. Lots of arrests in Manhattan for social distancing. Even taking video of the arrests got you arrested https://abc30.com/nypd-violent-arrest-east-village-caught-on-camera-legal-aid/6147847/ https://abc30.com/nypd-violent-arrest-east-village-caught-on... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/08/social-distancing-arrests-black-people-new-york-police https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/may/08/social-dista... Famous report of Texas woman arrested for not wearing mask to Bank AFTER Abbott rolled back the federal mask mandate. https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/13/us/galveston-arrest-bank-no-mask-trnd/index.html https://edition.cnn.com/2021/03/13/us/galveston-arrest-bank-... No mask - no vote https://marylandmatters.org/2020/10/28/gop-lawmaker-takes-legal-case-of-man-arrested-for-not-wearing-a-mask-at-polling-place/ https://marylandmatters.org/2020/10/28/gop-lawmaker-takes-le... Famous case of Mom arrested and taken to the ground for not wearing mask correctly, lol. https://ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn/coronavirus-blog/2020/05/15/mother-arrested-for-not-wearing-mask https://ny1.com/nyc/brooklyn/coronavirus-blog/2020/05/15/mot... We can go on and on...but seriously do people have such terrible short term memory that all the arrests, business closures and police abuse are already forgotten ?

jghn 1y ago
Out of those incidents, what %age was due to not wearing a mask vs the person in question acting out of control when asked to follow whatever rules were in place?
dekhn 1y ago
I looked through these articles and also did a bit more reading. In multiple cases, the individual was given the opportunity to comply with the law (or request, in the case of a private business), refused, and then was arrested for trespassing when they were asked to leave. That's actually different from "Arrested for not wearing a mask". In one article, the women who refused to wear the mask threatened to cough on people. In another case, the lawsuit was thrown out by the judge; the individual who was arrested was actually given the opportunity to vote (in a no-mask area), but refused and then was asked to leave, then arrested for trespassing. There certainly were rights violations, and unnecessary violence/arrests by law enforcement officials. I'm not excusing those, but I will observe that it's challenging to uphold the law in a rapidly changing medical emergency. In another ac

jghn 1y ago

Out of those incidents, what %age was due to not wearing a mask vs the person in question acting out of control when asked to follow whatever rules were in place?

dekhn 1y ago

I looked through these articles and also did a bit more reading. In multiple cases, the individual was given the opportunity to comply with the law (or request, in the case of a private business), refused, and then was arrested for trespassing when they were asked to leave. That's actually different from "Arrested for not wearing a mask". In one article, the women who refused to wear the mask threatened to cough on people. In another case, the lawsuit was thrown out by the judge; the individual who was arrested was actually given the opportunity to vote (in a no-mask area), but refused and then was asked to leave, then arrested for trespassing. There certainly were rights violations, and unnecessary violence/arrests by law enforcement officials. I'm not excusing those, but I will observe that it's challenging to uphold the law in a rapidly changing medical emergency. In another ac