Sharon Hurt, an at-large member of the Nashville Metro Council, suggested this week that people who do not wear a face mask, but spread coronavirus, should be hit with attempted murder or murder charges.
During an August 5 meeting between the city’s Public Safety, Beer & Regulated Beverages and Health, Hospitals, & Social Services committees, Hurt asked whether the council could enact legislation criminally charging people who don’t wear face coverings in a similar fashion HIV-positive people who knowingly spread HIV without informing partners.
She said:
My question goes back to legislation. I don’t know if Mike Jameson could be the one to answer the question, but my concern is — you know I work for an organization, that if they pass a virus, then they are tried for murder or attempted murder, if they are not told … and this person who may very well pass this virus that’s out in the air because they’re not wearing a mask is basically doing the same thing to someone who contracts it and dies from it.
It seems to me that we have been more reactive, as opposed to proactive, and a little too late, too little. So, my thing is, maybe there should be legislation, stronger legislation, I don’t know if Mike Jameson is… can speak to it, but maybe there needs to be stronger legislation to say that if you do not wear a mask and you subject exposure of this virus to someone else then there will be some stronger penalty as it is in other viruses that are exposed.
Mike Jameson, director of legislative affairs and senior adviser to Nashville Mayor John Cooper (D), responded by informing Hurt that the city council does not have the legal authority to create criminal statutes.
“[T]he council does not have the opportunity on its own to create criminal legislation, that is a state creature. We’re warranted by state law, to apply criminal application to violations, just for example, as the state law allows us to apply a Class E misdemeanor to violate a health director violation,” Jameson explained. “But, in terms of creating a new code, or class of criminal offenses, that is a creature of state law.”
In response, Hurt said she “was afraid that was going to be the answer.”
Nashville city councilwoman Sharon Hurt calls for legislation to charge people with murder for not wearing a mask… https://t.co/4FVzt83QHQ
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Miss you first & your staff, kin, friends Must wear masks or drop charges
& abortion Kills more than Virus does day 1
really, L O L, I say same charges against any person holding any office with out a brain, they should not be holding in the first, place this b—h should not have been voted in in the first place lot of idiots in Nashville tenn , I live in tenn, but live in gods county, Robertson she must be a relative of the sorry mayor of Davidson county, , he needs to be voted out
OMG! Yet another insane Leftist!
The democratic communist party wants to control everything, take your freedoms, rights, throw away the Constitution and the people who keep electing these race hustling communists will be responsible for the destruction of the greatest country in history. But then it will be too late.
That fool can’t even utter a complete sentence or thought. Councilwoman? Council joke…and a bad one at that.
What continues to amaze me is that people continue to vote for idiots like her, Ilhan and Cortez. It just proves that the vote, in the wrong hands, is a dangerous thing.
Does anybody need more evidence that these idiots are mentally retarded?
My frustration is that we conservatives have no way to communicate with each other that is not being monitored by our communist adversaries and deep state. Sooner or later we will have to fight for our freedom in the literal sense, not by contributing money which is buying what ?
What an idiot this council woman is. Talk about taking our rights away as citizens. We are being dictated to about everything these days and like zombies we just go unknowingly along with this crap. When are we going to push back on this nonsense and take our country back? We are slowly becoming a communist nation with these idiots trying to railroad us into everything and anything that takes our free choices away from us.. Who put this jerk into office? Use your voice people and vote these troublemakers out of office and tell them we aren’t going to stand for this anymore. Apparently all these face masks are doing nothing to protect anyone anyway. Look how many more people have corvid now. Wearing these face masks do more damage than good. Everyone’s faces are breaking out and getting rashes, people are getting indentations around their cheeks and blisters on their ears and breathing in your own carbon dioxide makes you dizzy and gives you a foggy brain so you can’t concentrate and what about people with asthma or COPD who can’t breath with these things on. Are you going to put them in jail for attempted murder you stupid moron? .It’s all a matter of control from these Democrats and people like this woman. Let’s stop the insanity about this once and for all.