Posted on 06/03/2020 11:19:03 AM PDT by Olog-hai
A man who was arrested for rioting at a Black Lives Matter demonstration of 250 people in Pennsylvania has told authorities that he went out without a face mask despite knowingly having coronavirus.
Julio V. Torres, 22, wasn’t practicing social distancing measures at the event on Monday and drew attention to himself when he threw “objects which could cause bodily harm at police officers” and spoke to other individuals in the crowd “appearing to be directing their actions”.
After he removed a barricade outside Lancaster Police Station and threw it into the middle of the street, cops chased him down, then he told authorities he had tested positive for COVID.
Torres flailed his arms and kicked an officer in the side of the head twice, according to police. He also headbutted another cop, a police report states.
He was booked into jail on charges of riot, aggravated assault on police, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct, and held at Lancaster County Prison in lieu of $25,000 bail.
“During the arraignment, it was discovered that (Torres) tested positive, was told to self-quarantine and chose to attend or participate in the protest without proper social distancing, without a proper face mask and has placed other people at risk — both the public who were peacefully participating in the protest and law enforcement,” Lancaster County President Judge David Ashworth told Lancaster Online. […]
As of Wednesday, 3,267 of Pennsylvania’s 77,654 cases of coronavirus were in Lancaster County. Of 5,742 deaths in Pennsylvania, 310 were from Lancaster.
“I am very worried about an outbreak following days of demonstrations,” Lancaster Mayor Danene Sorace said in an email Tuesday afternoon.
The mayor had earlier warned people planning to protest that armed white supremacists planned on attending. …
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Lancaster, PA. Julio V. Torres? Doesn’t sound Amish to me.
Yeah. Arson, looting, assault and battery.
That’s all fine and dandy.
But this is an outrage.
The looney left is quite despondent.
Is that a terrorist act given his knowledge?
bttt
What a farce.
“Is that a terrorist act given his knowledge?”
I hope you’re joking.
Maybe this was an attempt to have the cops stay away from him.
Did the cops actually test him?
I betcha it’s BS intended to try and scare cops off of arresting him.
He must’ve snuck into the commune through a hole in the fence.
Hate crime
He was weaponizing a weaponized virus.
And Democrat.
We have truly departed reality and entered Wackadoodle World.
What we have here is a giant, unplanned experiment. There was obvious, massive exposure of COVID during the protests and subsequent riots.
In about 10 days, we should know with certainty if the public health warnings were BS, or if they actually did knew what they were talking about.
Too bad he wasn’t just looting, burning and beating up people in wheelchairs. He could have gotten away with THAT.
ping
No worries Josh Rogen and Steve Carell will bail him out.
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