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Bodycam Video Shows Business Owner Harassed And Arrested by Police for Staying Open
GP ^ | 04/22/20 | Jim Hoft

Posted on 04/22/2020 12:54:02 PM PDT by Enlightened1

You’re going to just LOVE the new America.
Where business owners will be arrested and fined for working.
And mothers will be arrested for bringing their children to a park.

Winslow, Arizona police recently released body camera footage of the arrest of a hardened criminal business owner.

“We don’t want you to feel like we’re harassing you.” – Winslow police.

“If you’re open for business we have that right.” – Winslow police.

Arizona, a state of 7 million, has had 208 coronavirus deaths this year.

This is an shocking video!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPxlmrhKAJc&feature=emb_title

Gov. Doug Ducey had declared a public health emergency because of the coronavirus outbreak in March. Later that month, he issued a stay-at-home order, prohibiting any business not deemed essential from conducting in-person business.

But several people complained to the Winslow mayor when Authentic Indian Store, which primarily sold Native American jewelry, stayed open well into April, police said.

The body camera video shows police contacting the owner, 71-year-old Daniel J. Mazon, on April 11.

As soon as the officers walk in, Mazon starts recording them with his cell phone. When officers tell him he can’t stay open, Mazon argues that he is in compliance, saying he changed his license name to “Indian Department Store.”

He told officers he was now selling hay, paper towels, water and food, which officers noted were just candy bars.

“I get one or two people a day – corona bologna,” Mazon says as an officer looks at his store license.

Police said Mazon had been warned twice about keeping his store open, once by the Winslow mayor and once again by police, in the days before this incident. The officer says in the body camera video that these warnings came after the store license was issued on March 24.



TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; arrest; bloggers; businessowner; corona; covid; covid19; donutwatch; essentialservice; police; shutdown
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To: Enlightened1

Fascism. One idiot believes this virus will kill us all so we all must believe it. Seems religious to me.


61 posted on 04/22/2020 2:29:03 PM PDT by CodeToad (Arm Up! They Have!)
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To: sauropod
You usually are. With a bottle. ;-)


62 posted on 04/22/2020 2:31:26 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Darksheare

In Harris County the Police have refused to enforce the edict put out by a Judge in Harris County that everyone has to wear a mask.


63 posted on 04/22/2020 2:36:46 PM PDT by fortheDeclaration
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To: bagster

LLOLOL!


64 posted on 04/22/2020 2:37:05 PM PDT by sauropod (Pelosi Galore: We know she's lying when we see her dentures flying. Have some cake, Peasant!)
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To: Enlightened1
Yeah but when faced with the government oppression of it's citizens, police officers will side with their community and fellow citizens, alright...


65 posted on 04/22/2020 2:38:24 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: bagster
"I was standing on a corner."

Love it!
{:-)

66 posted on 04/22/2020 2:40:02 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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To: nevergore

And the SS was just following orders.


67 posted on 04/22/2020 2:41:53 PM PDT by Fledermaus (ONLY A MORON THINKS 6 FEET IS A MAGIC NUMBER!)
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To: Enlightened1

“I was just following orders” should have the same results as it did at Nuremberg back in the day.


68 posted on 04/22/2020 2:42:37 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Enlightened1

And I hear about people on this site complaining about all of the hate for police officers.

Just like throughout all of history, the psychopaths who become police officers in the first place just get off on controlling people and abuse of their authority.

JoMa


69 posted on 04/22/2020 2:53:43 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: Yogafist

Agreed! The fear-pers, as you so eloquently put it, demand you and I blindly follow orders.

For those who care, the guy with the username ‘Lurker’ on FreeRepublic is absolutely one of those who demand complete acquiescence to the authorities else we might risk his existence.

JoMa


70 posted on 04/22/2020 2:56:44 PM PDT by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks.)
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To: dp0622
I wear a mask in no small stores.

Well aren't you the really special one?

Tell me special one, can you freely drive to your cottage or second home in the northern part of your state without fear of being ticketed or arrested?....I can't

Can you freely purchase whatever product you wish in your local big box store?.....I can't

Can you get together with a bunch of your buddies at a local park and play some softball without fear of being ticketed or arrested?.....I can't

Can you go out fishing in your boat, especially when opening day of trout season is April 25th without fear of being ticketed or arrested?.....I can't

Can you go out to your local golf course for a round of golf?......I can't without fear of being caught and tried for trespassing.........

Yea, we know you're a tough guy from New York since you keep bragging about it but you're full of crap when it comes to our civil liberties.......

71 posted on 04/22/2020 2:57:59 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: Enlightened1

This is why some people cheer when cops get killed.


72 posted on 04/22/2020 3:07:25 PM PDT by nonliberal (Sent from a payphone in a whorehouse in Mexico)
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To: P-Marlowe

“These Nazis certainly don’t enforce immigration laws or cooperate with ICE. But they’ll set up a sting for a guy who is doing nothing more than trying to feed his family.”

There ya go.

The store owner is now another old guy that will go out with his barrel hot, laughing heartily. And the cops have ID’d themselves as foes.


73 posted on 04/22/2020 3:08:32 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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The Ministerium für Staatssicherheit, MfS is alive and well in Winslow, AZ..........


74 posted on 04/22/2020 3:09:59 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights .........It is the LAW.)
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To: mistfree

“I don’t believe that the cops have the right to force you to tell them anything.”

They’ll arrest you, then your lawyer speaks for you. You’ll need $$$ for that.

Do not trust any cop.


75 posted on 04/22/2020 3:11:11 PM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and so few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: bagster

Many years back (early ‘80s...ish), driving cross country with a girlfriend, we passed through Winslow (before the fake storefront “corner”, the statues, etc.). I pulled up to a corner, punched in the cassette and we got out and danced to Take It Easy singing every word. When the song ended, we walked into a nearby bar and grill to get some lunch. Sheepishly looked at the older guy at the bar who saw us dancing out the window and asked if that happens a lot. Without missing a beat he rolled his eyes. let out a chuckle and said he sees it at least 10 times a day, eeeevery day and even more when the sun goes down.

But he said people are having fun and business is good so he didn’t mind it one bit.


76 posted on 04/22/2020 3:19:22 PM PDT by Hatteras
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To: nevergore

And the concentration camp guards were just following orders but we hung them too.


77 posted on 04/22/2020 3:48:04 PM PDT by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
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To: Hatteras
That story makes me happy. Thanks for telling it.

It's still good to be American.


78 posted on 04/22/2020 3:51:19 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: nonliberal
This is why some people cheer when cops get killed.

Wow.

Calm down, Antifa.


79 posted on 04/22/2020 3:55:56 PM PDT by bagster ("Even bad men love their mamas".)
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To: Enlightened1

Ok, so my plan for tomorrow is that I am going down to my local bar, which is currently open for takeout. Currently, in Denton county(tx) the fine for violations of judge Eads’s order is $500. Gonna order a beer and offer to pay the fine.


80 posted on 04/22/2020 4:21:20 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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