{"id":238329,"date":"2020-04-22T19:40:08","date_gmt":"2020-04-22T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238329"},"modified":"2021-09-26T19:06:18","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T23:06:18","slug":"cops-against-masks-houston-police-union-says-it-wont-enforce-idiotic-order-mandating-face-covers-for-everyone-over-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/id\/cops-against-masks-houston-police-union-says-it-wont-enforce-idiotic-order-mandating-face-covers-for-everyone-over-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Cops AGAINST masks: Houston police union says it won\u2019t enforce \u2018IDIOTIC\u2019 order mandating face covers for everyone over 10"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>It\u2019s time everywhere for honest police organizations to side with the People and do what they are supposed to do in the first place: protect and serve them!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"article__summary summary \">Harris County, Texas officials may learn the hard way the wisdom of never issuing an order they know will not be obeyed, as the Houston police union signaled it would exercise discretion in enforcing their face mask mandate.<\/div>\n<div class=\"article__text text \">\n<p>Starting Monday, every resident of the third-largest county in the US will be subject to a fine if they are caught in public without some kind of face covering, county executive Judge Lina Hidalgo announced on Wednesday. The mandate applies to everyone over the age of 10 and will last at least 30 days, and maybe longer.<\/p>\n<p>Hidalgo went even further and said that\u00a0\u201cacceptable\u201d\u00a0coverings include a\u00a0\u201chomemade mask, scarf, bandana or handkerchief\u201d but not N-95 respirators or medical masks, as those are needed by health workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is about personal responsibility,\u201d\u00a0she told reporters, adding that while the police will have discretion just as they do in enforcing her stay-at-home orders, there will be a fine of up to $1,000 with the goal of\u00a0\u201cgetting residents to comply.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/486606-houston-police-mask-orders\/?fbclid=IwAR35rQ-HvmWl3S9Hr2a3Fu6Nl60SgM7Y-A5oD5hGr5Ny1CObTd7sxS70h_o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/486606-houston-police-mask-orders\/?fbclid=IwAR35rQ-HvmWl3S9Hr2a3Fu6Nl60SgM7Y-A5oD5hGr5Ny1CObTd7sxS70h_o<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: It\u2019s time everywhere for honest police organizations to side with the People and do what they are supposed to do in the first place: protect and serve them! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":337475,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337475"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}