18-year-old charged with violating mask law: ‘I didn’t even know it was a law. Nobody knew it was a law’.
18-year-old charged with violating mask law: ‘I didn’t even know it was a law. Nobody knew it was a law’.
The law prohibits anyone over the age of 16 from wearing a mask that conceals their identity in public.
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Fucking South Carolina. How the shit is something that doesn’t conceal your face a mask??
Because it’s selectively enforced in order to oppress Black people
This is without exaggeration the reasoning behind like 90% of South Carolina's policies. Absolute shithole state, my heart goes out to people whose communities are there.
He probably got charged because he pissed off a cop. Maybe try not cursing at them while they are trying to break up a fight that you are not even a part of.
Nah.
How about cops stop being such pieces of shit instead?
You just want to legalize murder!
/poeslaw
The ones that want the job for the power are pieces of shit. It's best to not draw their attention to you for no reason.
“Just give up your right to free speech because cops can’t be trusted to respect your constitutional rights” is practical advice, but it’s not exactly saying anything good about cops.
Also, if you don't exercise your rights, it's functionally like you don't have those rights at all
Fuck off, I'm allowed to say what I want and fucking contempt of cop is not actually a law anywhere.
Cops should not have a pass but this law is beyond fucking stupid and clearly only put into place because the tough right wing are clearly special snow flakes that cannot anything they don't agree with.
I actually just realized the right is always calling the left "snowflakes and weak" when the left is offended by the rights desire to force their morals on us. In reality the left does what the right is refusing to do, be tolerant.
Turns out every accusation is really an admission from the right.
There's no law saying you can't curse at a cop, but the cop decided to charge they guy for breaking some old, obscure law from the 1950's that would not normally have been enforced.
Or it was manufactured outrage regardless....police should have thicker skin and better de-escalation training. If someone wants to wear a mask they should be allowed to wear a mask regardless of if it's because they're Muslim or they're worried about viruses or they've got a hairless they don't want to show people it ain't anybody's business who cares.
You do know that there is literally nothing a black person in South Carolina can do to stop a cop from arresting or attacking them if they feel like it, right? They can be sitting on a park bench reading a book and a cop will find a reason to abuse them because the South is filled with racist cops.
There's a reason why "driving while black" is a phrase all over the country, but in the South it's especially true.
Oh no! How dare he fucking swear at a cop?! Clearly, this fucking shit could not be allowed to fucking stand.
How about the cop grow the fuck up and not go off on a fucking immature power trip just because a teenager swore at him?
Fuck that pig.
Why the fuck are you defending cops persecuting people for swearing at them?
I am absolutely not defending them. The cop should have acted professionally and ignored what this guy said. Unfortunately, this is what tends to happen in the US. The cops here can usually get away with anything including murder with nothing more than some paid suspension as a punishment.
How do you say that and not get upset at the cop for clear abuse of power in that hypothetical? The cop is older, has training
It's a hood. I thought southerners liked hoods considering all the defending they do of the Klan.
Maybe if the hood had been white. Or most definitely his skin.
The sad thing is, according to the article, this was originally an anti-Klan law. And now it's being used to selectively and falsely prosecute black kids.
Read and you won't have to ask. It's even in the article.
When asked how common this charge is, Husted said she doesn’t know anyone who has represented someone on this type of charge and could hardly find a page of recent arrests on the public index.
“I’m shocked, as an attorney, I’d never heard of that kind of charge before. I immediately wanted to help because it’s just so ridiculous that someone would be charged with something like that,” Husted said.
Sounds like blatant selective enforcement of a law that only applies to people who commit contempt of cop.
Well, it looks like you can pull it up over your face. He just has it pulled down.
Edit: I'm not even defending mask laws. I don't see how they could possibly be constitutional and disagree with them fundamentally. I just think this guy was clearly wearing something that covers his face. It's a mask that he uses to cover his face.
So kind of like any T-shirt, sweatshirt, or a scarf?
Or napkin, towel, and blanket!
Would be real fun to see them twist themselves into pretzels banning all clothing that can cover a face without running afoul of their own pathological fear of human mammary glands 😂
I just think this guy was clearly wearing something that covers his face.
Oh no, somebody call the police /s
Oh wait, I guess they did. I guess he's lucky he wasn't shot...
(I didn't downvote you, I assume you're playing devil's advocate or the like)
A bunch of people were saying that it wasn't even a mask, but it obviously is. His mom even said that he wears one to cover some scars he is embarrassed about. I was just pointing that out.
Also I don't think mask wearing should be illegal. I think it's a big government over reach. Maybe I'd be fine with an additional penalty for wearing a mask while committing a crime, or something like that, if you really wanted to go after masked people. No way you should be able to be arrested for that. I don't think it would even hold up to court challenges as a viable law. I am confident that we will see these laws overturned.