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Re: There were plenty of businesses unable to function for more than a year
[quote name="Mysterio227"][quote name="laudablepuss"][quote name="blackwater"]sending people to jail for being on the street.[/quote] Uh huh. Link? I think that would have made the news.[/quote] It did, weird that every news source you depend on left you hanging, right? Or maybe you just forgot? Anyway, you don't even have to leave the 'States to find examples, and there were plenty more than what's listed here just on the west coast. https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandrasternlicht/2020/04/06/arrested-for-violating-coronavirus-stay-at-home-mandates-police-are-jailing-alleged-scofflaws/?sh=9f0cb4368a4c [quote]A 25-year-old man was arrested and charged with a misdemeanor on Saturday in Cincinnati for allegedly violating the governor’s “stay-at-home” order after posting a video on Instagram Live showing an outdoors gathering, which he narrates, saying: “We don’t give a [expletive] about coronavirus. In nearby Toledo, two people were separately arrested Sunday: one for allegedly failing to disperse from a gathering of 20-plus people; the other arrest was a woman apparently among a group of 50, but “the circumstances surrounding the arrest or the reason for the crowd were not immediately available,” according to TV station 13ABC. Nine people have been arrested in Hawaii for violation of stay-at-home orders, which can result in up to one year of jail time and a fine of no more than $5,000, according to local news site West Hawaii Today. A paddleboarder in Malibu, California was arrested on Thursday after allegedly ignoring lifeguards’ requests to come ashore on a closed beach, paddleboarding for at least 30 minutes, according to the LA Times. In Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, two people drinking alcohol on the street who allegedly refused to comply with officers’ orders to disperse were arrested for violating the state’s stay-at-home order, which carries a $200 fine, and alcohol charges, according to LancasterOnline.[/quote] [/quote]