We usually don’t associate late-night police visits for “unapproved” speech with the United States. At least, we never used to. But this is exactly what Florida beautician and mother of three Angelique Contreras experienced — all because she made an innocent anti-mask joke on Facebook. There’s video of the encounter, too.
According to National File, what apparently sparked the social-media exchange is a Palm Beach County plan to put citizens who wish to attend County Commission meetings, and are medically exempt from mask-wearing, in a separate building. This would prevent them from addressing their leaders directly.
A man Contreras was discussing this with on Facebook didn’t appreciate the policy and quipped that he’d like to dump garbage on a county administrator’s lawn. To this Contreras responded, also in jest, “thousands of Mask[s].”...
