WASHINGTON, May 7 — A Texas hairdresser was sentenced to seven days in jail for keeping her salon open in violation of lockdown orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a move that state legislators decried yesterday as “outrageous.” Shelley Luther, who owns Salon A La Mode, was ordered...
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WASHINGTON, May 7 — A Texas hairdresser was sentenced to seven days in jail for keeping her salon open in violation of lockdown orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a move that state legislators decried yesterday as “outrageous.” She “expressed no contrition, remorse or regret,” said the judge, who also charged Luther a fine of US$7,000 — US$1,000 for every one of the days she kept her salon open.During the trial, Luther — who also participated in anti-lockdown protests — told the judge she needed to feed her kids, local media reported.
Texas's attorney general, Republican Ken Paxton, yeterday slammed the sentence as “outrageous and out of touch,” and urged the release of a mother who was “operating her hair salon in an attempt to put food on her family's table.”
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