Oklahoma city ends face mask rule for shoppers after store employees are threatened
Source: NBC News
The mayor of an Oklahoma city amended an emergency declaration requiring customers to wear face masks while inside businesses after store employees were threatened with violence.
In the short time beginning on May 1, 2020, that face coverings have been required for entry into stores/restaurants, store employees have been threatened with physical violence and showered with verbal abuse," City Manager Norman McNickle said in a statement. "In addition, there has been one threat of violence using a firearm."
"The wearing of face coverings is little inconvenience to protect both the wearer and anyone with whom they have contact," McNickle said, condemning those who threatened violence. "It is unfortunate and distressing that those who refuse and threaten violence are so self-absorbed as to not follow what is a simple show of respect and kindness to others.
He said businesses still have the right to require customers to wear a face mask or covering to enter.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna1198736
I guess OK is letting the terrorists win?
Skittles
(153,160 posts)these are the same assholes who have no problem with school children being required to participate in ACTIVE SHOOTER drills
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)You coin that phrase? Someone did. These parents would rather send their kid to school with a gun, just to protect themselves....another bad idea followed by many bad ideas. :/ meh.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)I have long called them gun humpers, and these protesting freaks are Trump humpers........mostly they are one and the same though, go figure
If you expect elementary school children to endure the trauma of active shooter drills for your freedoms, you can wear a mask to Costco.
-Heidi Freymiller
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)Hand out free masks and tell customers they need to wear them to enter the store... or shut down the shop for at least a month.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,340 posts)It's a balancing act.
Maybe the answer is: hire a bouncer.
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)Grab a couple of NFL linebackers...who I think will be out of a job..
shortly...
Moostache
(9,895 posts)"No shirt, No shoes, No Service..."
As far back as 1982's Fast Times at Ridgemont High and Sean Penn's "Jeff Spicoli" that has been a thing...
No Mask, No Entrance.
Easy Peasy, Nice and Easy.
Wave a gun at someone? Is that not assault in a sane world?
I think these people have been watching too many reruns of "Tombstone" lately...
There is no need to appease these people or their terroristic threats, simply bar entry and arrest anyone violating the policy for treaspassing. Then they can have their date in court and see if the judge allows them to brandish arms in the courtroom too...
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,340 posts)Shop workers arresting people causes lawsuits, which are expensive to defend, so it makes little business sense (for a mom&pop shop).
If employees are threatened, call the cops. That's their job.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)Arrest their ass.
They don't HAVE to shop at this establishment. Use their freedom of choice and shop at a store who is FINE with threatening people because they are carrying out safety protocol.
This is just a game to them. They are going to OWN the libtards. They are TRYING to stir shit.
Once again, we "play nice" and cave.
The store manager should have said, "FINE. You can either prove that you have not been infected, or wear the protective mask, THEN you can enter".
Customer wants to file charges? Again, FINE. Let's get all the pr that goes with that. We won't have to dox the asshole, since EVERYTHING will be in the papers.
I would imagine the store would get MORE shoppers, knowing it is a safe place to shop, and the asshole would find out that A LOT of people now KNOW they are an asshole. 'Tis the cost one pays for being an asshole.
rickyhall
(4,889 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,001 posts)Vinca
(50,271 posts)beachbumbob
(9,263 posts)Moostache
(9,895 posts)Rule of Law is a defunct concept if we allow it to continually apply unidirectionally...
You're seeing the exact same thing with the smearing of Biden with dubious or outright fabricated sexual assault charges.
Democrats MUST stop allowing this continual loop of insanity.
Maxheader
(4,373 posts)Clorox chuggers...
DinahMoeHum
(21,787 posts)#newrostrong
Atticus
(15,124 posts)to force the "culling of the herd".
Those making threats and disturbing the peace dhould be arrested without warning and criminally charged. Those threatening with guns should be disarmed, cuffed and stuffed. Their firearms should be destroyed.
moreland01
(739 posts)I live in Fort Collins and our mask requirement (for shops) goes in to effect tomorrow. Thru NextDoor, I've encouraged people to thank our City leaders (cityleaders@fcgov.com) for their courage. Our City is left-leaning but we are surrounded by coal rollers, yee haws, trump lovers and gun humpers (is that redundant? .
The only way I'm patronizing local merchants is if they require masks.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Like I told my wife last night,if my kids were working at one of those malls they want to fling open because of Trump's NAZI's then they just lost their job. No one needs a dead HS aged kid making minimum wage and kowtowing to Trumps Terrorist.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,316 posts)or just some assholes who thought customer service wasn't up to their desires? Or even just assholes who thought "the camera can't recognise me now, I can threaten someone!!!! Go for it !!!!"
bluestarone
(16,940 posts)Almost EVERY STATE! THEY have to be fucking arrested!!!!!
yardwork
(61,608 posts)LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)I live in Oklahoma City.
The assholes are the ones who get
the attention for throwing a temper tantrum
like an Effing toddler who lays on the floor screaming
because they can't it right now.
Stillwater is the college Oklahoma State University
children always think they are the center of the universe.
until, they are not.
Always win the Darwin Awards
El Mimbreno
(777 posts)Thanks kpete & NurseKelsey[link:|
riversedge
(70,218 posts)Bayard
(22,071 posts)That's what you would do under any other circumstances. You can't just threaten people like this.
I would think, hiring a guard/bouncer at the door would be cheaper than shutting down. Or letting the idiots infect everybody else.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)Bring a gun and threaten violence and we'll change the rules to suit YOU, not everyone else.
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)business, I guess the defense is, you don't have to shop there, well, my retort, is you allowed someone who may be infected to just fucking roam around the place and go around in my public space and endanger me and my family, is this your right wing libertarian logic............place your fucking bets, next up Harold Hamm screaming about opening the area up for some basketball tickets to be sold, after all he runs the state and holds a lot of junk bonds from his fracking operation..........................fucking idiots.......
Moostache
(9,895 posts)as soon as someone sues the financial backers of these astroturf free-for-alls...
They are as resolute in their demands and support as the consequences of their actions allows and no further.
turbinetree
(24,701 posts)that would be my first course of legal action since they want to be front and center.........where your permit........