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Charles Co. (MD) Residents Protest Continued Closure [Man wears "White Supremacy Is Terrorism" shirt]
Southern Maryland Chronicle ^ | 5/16/20 | Suzanne Copeland

Posted on 05/17/2020 5:12:29 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD

La Plata, MD - On Friday, May 15, 2020, at 5:00 p.m. demonstrators gathered in front of the Charles County Government Center to protest the Board of County Commissioners decision to postpone the counties phase 1 reopening schedule. The protest was led by Bill Dotson, former District 28 Delegate, after the Board of County Commissioners voted in a 3-2 to keep Charles County closed until May 29, 2020.

The demonstrators were met with opposition from Deron Tross, publisher and creator for the Facebook group, Charles County Matters Est. 2015. Tross and several other demonstrators supporting the Commissioner’s decision arrived to protest their right to reopen when it is safer.

According to Dotson, the county commissioners did not listen to the experts who were asked to weigh in on where the county stands on being able to reopen into Phase 1 as St. Mary’s and Calvert Counties are doing. Dotson also states that “County Commissioner Collins was in contact with the Prince Georges County Executive Alsobrooks and made the decision to stand with Prince Georges County, instead of deciding what was best for Charles County residents and businesses.”

Dotson also claims that “three of the five commissioners aligned themselves with PG County for political reasons, and ignored the cost of all these people and their businesses. And we didn’t vote for Angela Alsobrooks to be our commissioner, we voted for the group of five in that building to be our commissioners.”

Many there who were protesting the county commissioner’s decision, told how they had taken all this time that they were under the “Stay at Home’ order to find the proper PPE, thoroughly clean and sanitize their business, ensured that they had employees willing to come back and work at 5 pm on May 15th.

One woman, Kayleen Edwards, shared her story about her business, and how she has had to live off her savings, just to survive not having her business open. Edwards is the one who handles estate sales when someone sells their home or passes away. She described how she was in the middle of holding an estate sale, only allowing 4 people inside the home at a time when a neighbor called the police, the police came and told her to shut it down, because her business is not essential, or she would go to jail.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: charlescounty; coronavirus; covid19; lockdown; maryland; politics; quarantine; racism; reopen; usa; whitesupremacy
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Could one of you please post the lone photo of the man wearing the "White Supremacy Is Terrorism" t-shirt in the bottom of the article? I don't have Photobucket. Thanks!
1 posted on 05/17/2020 5:12:29 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ken Regis; 11th_VA; blueyon; kburi; hoosiermama; sofaman; BufordP; SE Mom; ...

WMAL Ping List!

Maryland News!


2 posted on 05/17/2020 5:13:54 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

What about black supremacy? Is that not also terrorism?


3 posted on 05/17/2020 5:14:52 AM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: rfreedom4u

What does WHITE SUPREMACY have to do with OPENING BUSINESSES? Many business owners in Charles County are from Vietnam or Central America!


4 posted on 05/17/2020 5:21:42 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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5 posted on 05/17/2020 5:22:55 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

What planet does that guy live on? Straight white males are the only group that is an easy target for discrimination nowadays.


6 posted on 05/17/2020 5:25:43 AM PDT by Socon-Econ (adical Islam,)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD


These are averaged daily reported cases.
7 posted on 05/17/2020 5:33:38 AM PDT by loucon
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Charles county council has been inept and in someones pocket for years. And... The stupid in Charles county will re-elect them again based on skin tone, not ability to govern.


8 posted on 05/17/2020 5:37:40 AM PDT by Ikeon (Nothing happens in politics "by chance" . covid -19 is a drill.)
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Bump


9 posted on 05/17/2020 5:44:46 AM PDT by foreverfree
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

My wife and I attended the Reopen Maryland rally on Friday. The sheep are strong in this state. Stupid too


10 posted on 05/17/2020 6:06:46 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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“My wife and I attended the Reopen Maryland rally on Friday.”

How was it? Well attended?


11 posted on 05/17/2020 6:21:53 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

Probably 300 people. Heavy police presence. The organizer originally planned for it to be a picket, which doesn’t require a permit. The Police Chief told him that a rally would be fine, so rally we did.

It was neat to shake hands, see friends hugging each other and people acting like humans.

I got to meet the guy I was planning to vote for to oppose the Pelosi stooge congressman we’re stuck with.

Lots of media present. Probably hoping for a confrontation.


12 posted on 05/17/2020 6:25:37 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

He’s probably poor and got the shirt from some 3rd-world charity because the White Sumpremacists lost the Super Bowl earlier that year. Just like a long time ago a lot of poor people in Africa and Haiti used to wear “Buffalo Bills Super Bowl Champs” shirts.


13 posted on 05/17/2020 6:36:32 AM PDT by Bernard ("I don't know if that's true:" Schiff said.)
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To: cyclotic

Is that stooge Steny Hoyer? ‘Cuz he’s my Congressman & I’m so DONE with him too!


14 posted on 05/17/2020 6:54:20 AM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD

No. Ruppersburger.


15 posted on 05/17/2020 7:29:31 AM PDT by cyclotic (The most dangerous people are the ones that feel the most helpless)
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To: Bernard

yeah, now the poor Africans wear T shirts that say “Madame president” with Hillary’s picture on it.


16 posted on 05/17/2020 7:46:33 AM PDT by ronniesgal (so I wonder what his FR handle is???? and let's get back to living!!!)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; laplata

Ping


17 posted on 05/17/2020 1:50:29 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Some of these people, I met them -- zero interest, Okay? Like zero." -- Donald J. Trump)
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Maryland “Freak State” PING!


18 posted on 05/17/2020 5:16:18 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Wu Flu! (when I feel heavy metal) Wu Flu! (when I'm pins and I'm needles) Wu Flu!)
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To: SilvieWaldorfMD; Tolerance Sucks Rocks

This is all getting so asinine. Two more weeks is going to make it ‘safer’? After three months of this alleged Armageddon bug already? Wake up, sheeple.


19 posted on 05/17/2020 5:32:04 PM PDT by Viking2002 (Why should I walk into the great unknown, when I can sit here, and throw my bones?)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Additionally, Mr. Tross’ group claims to have texts and screenshots of alleged threats to the Charles Co. Commissioners, but they have not produced copies. They say that they provided copies to the Charles Co. Sheriff’s Office. Perhaps a quick call to the CCSO media relations person, Diane Richardson, would clear this up? Hmmm....
I will send this thought to the WMAL News Room.


20 posted on 05/17/2020 6:16:12 PM PDT by SilvieWaldorfMD (A Realistically Really Real Housewife)
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