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SEPTEMBER 4, 2020
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• A Michigan man pulled a 4-inch knife on a store worker after she asked him to wear a mask while shopping. • In Louisiana, a convenience store clerk shot at a customer who refused to wear a mask. No one was injured. The clerk was arrested. • A 17-year-old employee of Sesame Place, a children’s theme park near Philadelphia, was punched in the face by a man and a woman after he reminded them to wear masks while in the park. • An employee at a Colorado Waffle House was shot and wounded after confronting a customer who refused to wear a mask. The customer was charged with attempted first-degree murder. • At a New Jersey Staples store, a 54-year-old woman asked a 25-year-old woman to properly wear the mask she was wearing around her chin. The older woman had undergone a liver transplant 4 months previously. The younger woman threw the older woman, who walked with a cane, to the ground, breaking her leg in the process. The younger woman was arrested. • Customers who resisted being removed from a Van Nuys, California,
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• A San Francisco bus driver was beaten with a bat, spit on, and called racial slurs after trying to remove passengers from his bus who refused to wear face masks. No arrests were made. • A 35-year-old Washington state resident was arrested and charged with assault after allegedly breaking the jaw of a 72-year-old disabled veteran during a dispute over face masks in a hotel lobby. Cody Hansen allegedly punched the unnamed victim several times, leaving him unconscious. The victim informed officers he made a comment to Hansen’s girlfriend who was not wearing a mask. • An employee at an Oklahoma McDon-
ald’s was shot and two other employees wounded when a customer opened fire after being told the dining area was closed due to coronavirus restrictions. • A 53-year-old Pennsylvania man confronted a motorist who reportedly coughed without covering his mouth in a convenience store parking lot. The argument sparked a physical confrontation, and the coughing man opened fire. No one was injured. Both men were arrested for assault. • In California, a man fired his gun out of frustration after a hospital prevented him from being able to visit a sick relative due to pandemic guidelines. No one was injured. The man was arrested. • A Michigan man shot at employees of a convenience store after being asked to
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wear a mask. No one was injured, and police are still looking for the shooter. • A woman hit an American Airlines gate agent at the Phoenix airport after she was barred from boarding her flight after refusing to wear a mask, per airline policy. • A Pennsylvania man shot a cigar store employee after being told he had to wear a mask inside the store, then shot at police who tried to arrest him at his home, injuring one officer. • A 17-year-old Chili’s hostess in Louisiana, trying to comply with restaurant policy of seating no more than 6 people together, was attacked by members of a party of 13 for not being able to sit together. The employee required stitches to close facial cuts. • In an Austin, Texas, grocery store a man became so enraged when he was told to wear a face mask that he threw several cases of water through the store’s plate glass windows, causing $17,000 in damages. • A security guard at a Michigan Family Dollar store told a family they could not enter the store without masks. The family left, but the father and son later returned and the son shot the guard in the head, killing him. +