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DC mayor threatens jail time for leaving home during coronavirus
nypost ^ | 03/30/2020 | Steven Nelson

Posted on 03/31/2020 6:24:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

WASHINGTON — Mayor Muriel Bowser is threatening residents of Washington, DC, with 90 days in jail and a $5,000 fine if they leave their homes during the coronavirus outbreak.

The threat of jail is alarming residents and civil libertarians who point out that at least five inmates tested positive for COVID-19 in the city’s 1,700-inmate jail near Capitol Hill.

“Our message remains the same: stay home,” Bowser, a Democrat, said in a statement Monday. The stay-home order has exceptions for grocery shopping and work deemed essential. Outdoor recreation such as running is allowed, but cannot involve people outside of a household.

The order is similar to dictates in neighboring Maryland and Virginia, but shocked residents of Washington, where there are just 401 of the nation’s 160,000 confirmed cases.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: 1moretime; coronavirus; dc; jail; mayor
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1 posted on 03/31/2020 6:24:55 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Commie power trip.


2 posted on 03/31/2020 6:25:21 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder what this authoritarian bitch would think of me casting boolits just outside my garage.


3 posted on 03/31/2020 6:30:13 AM PDT by LIConFem (I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Democrats releasing criminals from jail in order to make room for the rest of us.


4 posted on 03/31/2020 6:33:32 AM PDT by Skeptical constituent
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To: ChicagoConservative27

But people can run and go to the store and walk their dogs.. But people can’t walk alone? Makes no sense.. Unenforceable.


5 posted on 03/31/2020 6:35:19 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, ad that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Does that apply to Nancy Pelosi?


6 posted on 03/31/2020 6:36:42 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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To: Skeptical constituent
Democrats releasing criminals from jail in order to make room for the rest of us.

It never fails.. Democrats rewarding the bad and punishing the good. It's written into their DNA.
7 posted on 03/31/2020 6:38:25 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, ad that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Hey after they empty their prisons of real criminals, how’re they gonna fill ‘em up again?


8 posted on 03/31/2020 6:39:20 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What is she going to do when her homies defy this order? Or is she only going to enforce this in upper Northwest?


9 posted on 03/31/2020 6:39:54 AM PDT by Truth29
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Day by day, we are watching the dissolution of the “Union” before our very eyes. Not by revolution. Not by civil war. Not by anarchy.

Politicians are taking unto themselves powers they were never meant to have and taking away our freedoms. When will the fourth box be opened? Or will it remain forever sealed, an archeological curiosity?


10 posted on 03/31/2020 6:45:36 AM PDT by NTHockey (My rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Won’t be enforced in a certain area of D.C., the area where very bad things happen all the time.


11 posted on 03/31/2020 6:49:28 AM PDT by JCL3 (As Richard Feynman might have said, this is reality taking precedence over public relations.)
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Fourth box of what? Ammo?


12 posted on 03/31/2020 6:53:58 AM PDT by sauropod (Pelosi Galore: We know she's lying when we see her dentures flying.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

And when the looting and riots start, whatcha gonna do then bitch?


13 posted on 03/31/2020 6:55:12 AM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

He doesn’t have big enough jails


14 posted on 03/31/2020 6:55:13 AM PDT by yldstrk (Bingo! We have a winner!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

So is this the ‘Spend some time with a former mayor in jail” day ?


15 posted on 03/31/2020 6:56:30 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

The nazi mayor will do it selectively just to f-up your life. To the wdc nitwit voters who voted for this confused, inept trash...Hahaha.


16 posted on 03/31/2020 7:10:24 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp???)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

What’s the protocol for the Senior’s kegger this year?


17 posted on 03/31/2020 7:15:04 AM PDT by gasport (Pray for the people of Captive China)
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To: DivineMomentsOfTruth

Put this little guy on a leash and go for a walk.

Why do you need to go for a walk? Open a window and do some yoga in the privacy of your own safe home.

18 posted on 03/31/2020 7:22:55 AM PDT by bgill (Idiots. CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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To: bgill

Hahaha.. I saw a news segment where people were dragging around stuffed animals on a leash.


19 posted on 03/31/2020 7:27:05 AM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, ad that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: Truth29

Only enforced in upper northwest. Will.not be enforced in bad areas such as Anacostia.


20 posted on 03/31/2020 7:29:55 AM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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