Amid the coronavirus pandemic in America, multiple police chiefs and sheriffs in Arkansas and elsewhere say they won’t enforce statewide mask requirements, even within their departments. Others, including Lang Holland, the chief of police in tiny Marshall, Arkansas, reject the legal validity of requirements. He doesn’t make his officers wear masks either. The most vocal police pushback to mask requirements is coming from Republican-led states that aggressively reopened businesses or previously opposed stricter measures such as mask requirements. Several sheriffs in neighboring Texas have also said they wouldn’t enforce a mask requirement issued by Republican Gov.

Source: Fox News July 27, 2020 01:07 UTC