Posted on 05/05/2020 1:42:39 PM PDT by USA Conservative
Gov. Greg Abbott ordered the gradual reopening of Texas businesses amid the coronavirus outbreak. Here’s some of what we can expect under phase one, which will continue until at least May 18:
What can reopen?
All retail stores, malls, restaurants, movie theaters, libraries and museums must limit customers to 25% of their listed occupancy. Grocery stores, gas stations and other essential services that have already been open have no occupancy limits.
What remains closed?
Public swimming pools, bars, gyms, cosmetology salons, massage businesses, bowling alleys, video arcades, and tattoo, and piercing studios cannot yet open.
Abbott’s order, unveiled Monday, says “every person in Texas” must minimize social gatherings and contact with people who are not in the same household unless they need to provide or obtain services from essential or reopened businesses. Those over age 65 are strongly encouraged to stay home as much as possible, and all Texans are encouraged to keep at least 6 feet apart from others and wear a face-covering in public.
Texans had enough and decide that they don’t trust CDC or Dr. Fauci’s advice and want the economy to completely re-open. Gabrielle Ellison, owner of Big Daddy Zane’s in Odessa, decided to open her establishment on Monday in defiance of Governor Abbott’s decree.
“We can’t take it no more, we’re not going to make it,” Ellison said. “I am aware of what’s going on down the road. I am shocked. I had customers come through saying, ‘You know they have SWAT built up, they have SWAT built up.’ Why would you bring in SWAT on a peaceful situation?”
A group of armed protesters who have been supporting businesses deciding to open amid the government-mandated shutdown gathered at an Odessa Anytime Fitness location that opened on Friday. The Police arrested the group of armed men and the bar owner.
But the manner of which they were arrested was totally un-American given the fact that the bar-owner even spoke with the Sheriff’s Office before the demonstration!
The police arrived in a massive SWAT tank, they arrested the six armed men who stood with their arms raised in the air.
“This was not a protest of their second amendment rights. It was a show of force to ensure this lady could violate the governor’s order,” Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis told reporters.
The men were charged with carrying weapons on a licensed property and the bar owner was charged with violating Governor Abbott’s order.
Video below:
https://twitter.com/YALiberty/status/1257711667313545219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1257711667313545219&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightjournalism.com%2Fvideo-a-swat-team-with-guns-drawn-raided-a-peaceful-protest-against-forced-closure-in-texas-arrests-demonstrators%2F
Law enforcement drove behind the bar where owner Gabrielle Ellison, 47, had told armed protestors to stand because it was not considered her business property, but was her private property behind the bar.
Multiple ECSO Deputies and Texas Troopers drove their vehicles including an Armored Personnel Carrier behind the bar and pointed guns at the armed protesters telling them to put their hand’s up.
Those who were carrying guns were handcuffed and transported to the Ector County Detention Center. ECSO Sheriff Mike Griffis said in a phone interview that six people were arrested for felony unlawfully carrying a weapon on a licensed premise, Ellison was arrested for violation of the Governor’s order and one bystander was arrested for interfering with duties of a peace officer. Eight people were arrested in total.
Archibald said that those arrested were done so illegally because protesters were arrested on private property.
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Does video footage of actions of this type ever make it on to CNN or MSNBC?
It’s about The POWER.
The number of people still asleep amazes me. What is it gonna take to wake the hell up?!
“A group of armed protesters”
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They’re surprised LE also brought guns instead of knives?
all swat teams need to be dismantled
they are never used for the purposes that the public was told
they were told they would be used on armed gangs and drug dealers and other heavily armed criminals
they in reality are never used on exactly what we were lied to about who they would be used on
they have lied to the public about swat teams and have lost the public trust, have forefeited any credibility on the subject
More clickbait trash.
Have you no shame?
Have you no job?
“I see dead people”
Take a peek at this action
PING!!
I’m positive that most police officers have never even read the Constitution, much less understand it.
Back in the ‘70s, Connecticut had blue laws. Most stores had to be closed on Sundays. In the Sundays before Christmas, the big box stores (in those days in Wallingford, Grants, Stars, Barkers, and Caldor) all opened up and paid the $300 fine rather than lose business to competitors. No guns, no SWAT, just a simple citation that had to be paid. And that was pursuant to enforcement of a long-standing state law that was known to be legal.
Texas...that bastion of freedom (rolling eyes)...
Ya, he should have waited for CNN to air the footage, cuz they’re not click-bate.
lol, man you are harsh. this is link direct. took a while to find it in the click bait article.
https://twitter.com/JuYeonKimTV/status/1257473262881255425
So they were operating a bar in a dry area of texas during covid?
swat teams = badge bullies
Not sure if this was city or county, but the City Manager of Odessa is the most pathetic excuse of a human I’ve ever met, as is the City Attorney.
Dealt with both related to a pipeline.
Dumb as box of rocks and both clearly wanted their hands greased.
What is it gonna take to wake the hell up?!
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Most people in this country care more about free stuff than they do about freedom.
Good job.....providing the direct link to the source.
Again, thanks.
https://twitter.com/JuYeonKimTV/status/1257473262881255425
...i am so ashamed that I’m a Texan today..
This is a disgrace
This is my hometown. The Permian Basin has been the largest oil producing agent for the USA for decades. Now that all livelihoods have been completely decimated, other citizens simply can’t try to keep their business open either.
It is BECAUSE of the success of the Permian Basin that America was able to become energy-independent for just a season or so. Those of us who grew up there understand the ebb and flow oh so well.
Snide remarks about these people just go with the territory I suppose. They are so much bigger than you.
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