Sacramento Sheriff Reveals Why He Won’t Enforce COVID Curfew – Making Cops ‘Instruments’ Of ‘Oppression’ Damages Community Relations

Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones went on Fox Information on Saturday to clarify why he’s refusing to implement the state of California’s coronavirus curfew. Actually, he’s additionally refusing to implement every other present or future COVID-19 restrictions.

California Sheriff Refuses To Implement COVID Curfew

Jones informed “Fox & Mates” that his division nonetheless has “the identical sorts and quantities of requires service as we all the time have” to cope with. He added that he doesn’t need his sheriffs “to be devices of…oppression. I need of us to name us after they need assistance, understanding that we’re going to present up and make their lives higher and make the scenario higher, and that is the alternative of that.”

“Nicely, we gained’t be imposing that, or any of the opposite orders which are in existence now or may be coming,” Jones explained. “A few causes for that: Actually one is sensible. We nonetheless have the identical sorts and quantities of requires service as we all the time have, from the mundane to the thrilling.”

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Jones Doubles Down

“However there’s additionally type of a theoretical facet of it,” he added. “I imply, my youngsters, my household, my prolonged household are all struggling throughout this, like everyone’s household. And it actually has had an oppressive impact on everyone’s household, and I actually don’t need our ladies and men of the sheriff’s workplace to be devices of that oppression.”

“I need of us to name us after they need assistance, understanding that we’re going to present up and make their lives higher and make the scenario higher, and that is the alternative of that,” the sheriff stated. 

“[I]f we’ve realized nothing else over this final yr, of us are crying for police to be extra aware of their neighborhood,” Jones concluded. “Imposing these guidelines, that aren’t legal legal guidelines, is absolutely the alternative of that.”

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California has a number of the strictest coronavirus lockdown measures within the nation because of the state’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom. This comes as sheriffs in New York are also refusing to implement Governor Andrew Cuomo’s strict coronavirus orders going into Thanksgiving.

This piece was written by James Samson on November 21, 2020. It initially appeared in LifeZette and is utilized by permission.

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