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Texas sheriff receives threats from 'all over the country' after arresting anti-lockdown protesters
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...nti-lockdown-protesters?utm_source=whatfinger
by Spencer Neale
| May 07, 2020 11:00 AM
A Texas sheriff is being inundated with threatening phone calls days after his deputies arrested eight protesters outside a bar in Texas.
Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis said anti-lockdown protesters had rallied outside the county's office and at a house they believe belongs to Griffis this week in response to his decision to detain bar owner Gabrielle Ellison and members of Open Texas, who attempted to reopen Big Daddy Zane's bar in Odessa on Monday.
“I’m getting calls from all over the country threatening to shoot me, I mean it’s just been crazy,” Griffis said told NewsWest9 Wednesday. “All these people that are here from wherever you came from, just go home and get yourself a job.”
Protest leader Philip Archibald has used social media to rally Texans across the state who are upset with the coronavirus lockdown policies, some of which will be lifted this week throughout Texas. Archibald was undeterred after learning that others were threatening Griffis and his deputies.
“I have no control over that. That’s people being angry over what he did, and he deserves that,” he said.
Parts of Texas have reached a flashpoint over the restrictions in place to combat COVID-19, with one Dallas hair salon owner being fined more than $3,000 and sentenced to seven days in jail for reopening her business before the lockdown expires for certain industries, including salons, on Friday.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...nti-lockdown-protesters?utm_source=whatfinger
by Spencer Neale
| May 07, 2020 11:00 AM
A Texas sheriff is being inundated with threatening phone calls days after his deputies arrested eight protesters outside a bar in Texas.
Ector County Sheriff Mike Griffis said anti-lockdown protesters had rallied outside the county's office and at a house they believe belongs to Griffis this week in response to his decision to detain bar owner Gabrielle Ellison and members of Open Texas, who attempted to reopen Big Daddy Zane's bar in Odessa on Monday.
“I’m getting calls from all over the country threatening to shoot me, I mean it’s just been crazy,” Griffis said told NewsWest9 Wednesday. “All these people that are here from wherever you came from, just go home and get yourself a job.”
Protest leader Philip Archibald has used social media to rally Texans across the state who are upset with the coronavirus lockdown policies, some of which will be lifted this week throughout Texas. Archibald was undeterred after learning that others were threatening Griffis and his deputies.
“I have no control over that. That’s people being angry over what he did, and he deserves that,” he said.
Parts of Texas have reached a flashpoint over the restrictions in place to combat COVID-19, with one Dallas hair salon owner being fined more than $3,000 and sentenced to seven days in jail for reopening her business before the lockdown expires for certain industries, including salons, on Friday.
