By Megan Fox
Remember when police departments across America got MRAPs from the military and most of us were asking, “Why the heck do the police need vehicles of war and what are they going to use them for?” Well, now we know.
Ector County Sheriff’s SWAT team deployed their MRAP to break up a peaceful protest at a local bar, Big Daddy Zane’s, in West Odessa on Monday. They came in with guns drawn (look at that guy in the turret on top) to arrest the bar owner for violating the lockdown orders, even though Governor Abbot has announced a softening of the lockdown in Texas with most businesses able to open this Friday.
Ector County Sheriff’s SWAT team raiding a peaceful protest at Big Daddy Zane’s in West Odessa. The bar opened this afternoon despite Abbott’s latest orders, saying “all businesses are essential.”
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Business owners are growing desperate with employees who need to feed their families, so several small businesses have opened in defiance of the orders. Hairdresser Shelley Luther, was sentenced to seven days in jail and a $7000 fine for disobeying lockdown orders in Dallas on Tuesday. She stood up for her right to feed her children in court and refused to say what she did was wrong which, led to her sentencing.
The judge told Shelley Luther she
could avoid jail time if she apologized, admitted she was wrong, and agreed to close her hair salon until it was allowed to open.This is her response…@CBSDFW pic.twitter.com/1phdNUsLme
— Andrea Lucia (@CBS11Andrea) May 5, 2020