As many as 14 armed Orange County deputies, including narcotics agents, stormed Strictly Skillz barbershop during business hours on a Saturday in August, handcuffing barbers in front of customers during a busy back-to-school weekend.
It was just one of a series of unprecedented raid-style inspections the Orange County Sheriff's Office recently conducted with a state regulating agency, targeting several predominantly black- and Hispanic-owned barbershops in the Pine Hills area.
In "sweeps" on Aug. 21 and Sept. 17 targeting at least nine shops, deputies arrested 37 people — the majority charged with "barbering without a license," a misdemeanor that state records show only three other people have been jailed in Florida in the past 10 years.'
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This is on a par with the 7 year old girl who had a lemonade stand being told she had to pay a business license of $120 to operate it for a day. There were 3 enforcers and they were dead serious. A week later the head cheese apologized publicly to the mom and child but only because they learned the people were angry over such a thing I would imagine.
ReplyDeleteThis land of the free and home of the brave is pure nonsense isn't it? So heavy handed... that is learned from the Israeli police forces who taught most North American forces how to do it right over the last few years.
The crime? They were not white.....