18-year-old charged with violating mask law: ‘I didn’t even know it was a law. Nobody knew it was a law’.
18-year-old charged with violating mask law: ‘I didn’t even know it was a law. Nobody knew it was a law’.
The law prohibits anyone over the age of 16 from wearing a mask that conceals their identity in public.
It's the South, he's black in the heart of racistville, and Republicans hate medical masks because they're stupid. He's got the entire deck there stacked against him. I hope he's able to get out of this damn situation, and preferably also moves out of that useless state.
Isn't it painfully ironic that right wingers who cried about being told what to do by the state suddenly imposed a non-scientific law imposing what people can't do to their own body?
So much for individual freedumb amirite.
See, you don't understand.
Freedom means freedom... for them. For them to do what they want, impose what they want on others, and to do it all without repercussions.
This is a fine example of it. They want the freedom to be free of "burdensome" mandates. but they want the absolute authority to impose mandates on others, without anyone being able to push back against it
That's because they're authoritarians. They are protecting a hierarchy that they believe exists in the world. That's why they don't mind if rich white men hurt them. Those people are higher in their hierarchy, so it makes sense to them.
They don't like it if non-white people or women in general try to subvert this hierarchy. They believe if someone else rises in status they might fall in status. To them it's "not right"; it's a moral issue that people should "stay in their place" in the hierarchy.
So oddly enough this law is really old and is actually an anti KKK law.
They are absolutely trash...the party of small government until they're in charge, then it's fine as long as the laws punish other people. (Hint none of the shit they want to impose affects anyone. Like gays getting married. Hasn't changed my life one but, why should I care about preventing things that don't impact my life? Shouldn't I mind my own business?) Also the party of fiscal responsibility until they are in charge, then it's spend spend spend, for the rich, tax breaks for the rich and less services and higher taxes for us.
The whole of conservatism is "there must be outgroups for the law to bind but not protect, and in groups for the law to protect but not bind"
That's it.
They're trash people.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse. Unless you're rich; then you have to also have intent to break the law.
Unless you're rich enough to bribe the DA.
Fucking South Carolina. How the shit is something that doesn’t conceal your face a mask??
Because it’s selectively enforced in order to oppress Black people
This is without exaggeration the reasoning behind like 90% of South Carolina's policies. Absolute shithole state, my heart goes out to people whose communities are there.
It's a hood. I thought southerners liked hoods considering all the defending they do of the Klan.
Maybe if the hood had been white. Or most definitely his skin.
The sad thing is, according to the article, this was originally an anti-Klan law. And now it's being used to selectively and falsely prosecute black kids.
Read and you won't have to ask. It's even in the article.
When asked how common this charge is, Husted said she doesn’t know anyone who has represented someone on this type of charge and could hardly find a page of recent arrests on the public index.
“I’m shocked, as an attorney, I’d never heard of that kind of charge before. I immediately wanted to help because it’s just so ridiculous that someone would be charged with something like that,” Husted said.
Sounds like blatant selective enforcement of a law that only applies to people who commit contempt of cop.
Well, it looks like you can pull it up over your face. He just has it pulled down.
Edit: I'm not even defending mask laws. I don't see how they could possibly be constitutional and disagree with them fundamentally. I just think this guy was clearly wearing something that covers his face. It's a mask that he uses to cover his face.
It’s funny how this didn’t happen to a white person. /s
This is a psyop to help normies accept the stupid law.
Yes, who ever heard of a racist cop in South Carolina finding an obscure reason to arrest a black person before?
It's almost like ACAB or something.
Laws that are stupid need to be violated. People should join this poor fella and shit on that joke of a law by wearing this "mask" as mich as possible.
Just another law targeted at black people.
It's an old law that was actually passed to fight against the KKK, many states have similar laws, but apparently this one wasn't worded too carefully so intent isn't a part of the law, in other states you have to be clearly trying to hide your identity, this guy was wareing an open face ski hood. His entire face was visible, and he walked into police breaking up a fight or something, so they pounced on him as if he were involved, but clearly wasn't as they didn't charge with anything related to the fight.
9th amendment continues to be pissed on
