'Lock Up and Leave': Dallas Authorities Shut Down Hobby Lobby Stores

[douglas9]

DALLAS (CN) – Dallas authorities blasted craft chain Hobby Lobby Thursday evening for reopening stores in spite of county-wide shelter-in-place and business closure orders to stop the growing coronavirus pandemic.

Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins warned Hobby Lobby employees at a press conference that county officials were on their way and they should “lock up and leave as soon as possible.”

“I just want to make it clear to Hobby Lobby and anybody who is foolish enough to follow in their footsteps that in Dallas County, the government and 99.9 percent of businesses put public health over profits,” he said.

In Texas, counties’ elected chief executives are called county judges – they are administrative positions with no judicial duties.

Sheriff’s deputies arrived at store locations in North Dallas and Garland within minutes of the announcement and taped the cease-and-desist order onto the front doors. Shoppers at a Preston Road store said an employee instructed them on a loudspeaker to drop their merchandise and to leave the now-closed store.


https://www.courthousenews.com/lock-up-and-leave-dallas-authorities-shut-down-hobby-lobby-stores/

[SheltieLover]

1. 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Owner should be in prison FOREVER! 🤬🤬🤬

[Girard442]

2. Gee, I really hope no HL employee closes the store and forgets to turn off the coffeepot or...

leaves a heap of oily rags next to the water heater or anything like that.

[klook]

3. How'm I gonna make my scrapbook now?

[BillyBobBrilliant]

4. Where will I

get my flowery fabric to make my face masks?

[katmondoo]

5. Their crafts are a joke. Only people who are novices shop at Hobby Lobby for craft items.

[lark]

6. Worst pretend christians there are, outside of the drumpf administration.

Profiteers and liars is all they are and you couldn't drag me into one of their stores. I've been boycotting them for years and years and will never go there unless they have a complete change of ownership. They are the kind of people who made my son hate those who call themselves christians, he says they are all 100% hypocrites and assholes. I think there are some good christians, but they are very few and aren't in charge in general.