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
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 ?
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.
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?
