Posted on 05/09/2024 5:26:58 AM PDT by Loyalist
Ohio’s top lawyer has advised the state’s public universities that a law written to deter Ku Klux Klan demonstrations could be used to impose felony charges on students who wear face coverings while protesting the war in Gaza.
In a letter sent Monday, after weeks of pro-Palestinian campus protests around the country, Republican Attorney General Dave Yost advised the presidents of Ohio’s 34 public, four-year universities – which his office represents – to forewarn students about the 1953 law.
“In our society, there are few more significant career-wreckers than a felony charge,” the letter said. “I write to you today to inform your student bodies of an Ohio law that, in the context of some behaviour during the recent pro-Palestinian protests, could have that effect.”
The law is contained in a single sentence: “No person shall unite with two or more others to commit a misdemeanour while wearing white caps, masks, or other disguise.” Violating this “anti-disguise” law is punishable by a fourth-degree felony charge, up to $5,000 in fines and five years on community control, Yost wrote.
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Dr. Anthony Fasci decries stigmatism against maks-wearers.
Rioters in masks should be shot on sight by citizens.
Which would be a complete 180 from his response to cocerns of large unmasked crowds during the summer of 2020: "Oh, Covid can't spread that way, because the rioters are protected by the holiness of their cause".
The demonstrators could just write COVID on their masks.
And it’s the student loan deadbeats calling the police officers the KKK. They need their terrorist Jew-hating asses kicked.
Great news..
As soon as control over the rioter is established, the police should forcibly remove the mask and accompanying photographers should take a photo of the violator.
Why just warn if they violated the law?
I would think that claiming the mask as protection against COVID would be a defense against such a charge. Lol
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