Earlier in the year Sally Luther, a Dallas hair salon owner was arrested for violating Covid-19 restrictions according to a Washington Post article from May 8. In it they say:
“The judge told Shelley Luther she didn’t have to go to jail. The owner of Salon à la Mode in Dallas had been operating her business despite a temporary restraining order last week from Dallas County State District Judge Eric Moyé. She kept operating despite a county official’s cease-and-desist letter ordering her to close — a letter she ripped up before a crowd of protesters in a theatrical display of defiance during an Open Texas rally in Frisco, Tex., on April 25.”
Robin Torres is another person who violated stay-at-home orders and went to jail for it according to a Texas Tribune article published on December 19th, In it they say:
“Torres was one of at least 300 people arrested for violating COVID-19 orders, often in conjunction with other charges, in the first six weeks of the pandemic in the Rio Grande Valley, an investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. Here, in a part of the state already teeming with law enforcement because of its location along the border with Mexico, officials took some of the hardest lines on enforcement of COVID-19 rules in Texas. Altogether, authorities here issued nearly 2,000 citations to individuals for violating the orders, the investigation found.”
Looks like not everyone in Texas agrees with strict and punitive enforcement of COVID-19 policies.
