DeSantis has pardoned all Floridians who were arrested/fined for violating local mask mandates

[Nevilledog]

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Travis Akers
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#BREAKING: Gov. Ron DeSantis has pardoned all Floridians who were arrested or fined for violating local government mask mandates during the pandemic.
11:43 AM · Jun 16, 2021

[SoCalDavidS]

1. Of Course He Did nt

[genxlib]

2. This is why we can't have nice things

What is missing in this is that, by and large, people were not ever arrested for violating mask mandates.

They were arrested for acting like jack asses after they were asked to comply. Most of the time by resisting police officers.

They would have been arrested for that kind of behavior regardless of what the original defiance was about.

Some day I want to leave this cursed state

[Elwood P Dowd]

3. He would have done the same for the American Bund back in 1941.

They were not much different than the traitors and domestic terrorists who run the repuke party (or GQP) today.

[sop]

4. DeSantis is already campaigning, defining himself as the most retrograde Republican primary

candidate in 2024. God help us all if this vicious animal gets anywhere near the WH.

[Towlie]

5. I'm surprised that a governor can interefere with city and county laws.

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The US President can't pardon someone who breaks state law, but apparently a governor can pardon someone who breaks a city or county law. Who knew?

‘Let’s focus on real criminals’: DeSantis pardons remaining local COVID-19 penalties

Mike Carnevale was arrested three times in a two-week period last August for not requiring customers to wear masks at the gym, in defiance of Broward County’s rules to combat COVID-19, a disease caused by a respiratory virus. Prosecutors filed two misdemeanor charges against Mike Carnevale and one misdemeanor charge against Jillian Carnevale and offered to dismiss their case after completing a diversion program, said Paula McMahon, a spokeswoman for the Broward State Attorney’s office.

McMahon said the office dropped the charges after DeSantis announced in May that he was ending local pandemic-related restrictions such as mask mandates.

DeSantis said the county’s rules were “unwarranted, unreasonable restrictions on their business,” and that the Carnevales were punished for exercising “common sense” and refusing to “kowtow” to the county’s regulations.