MN Bar Owner Who Defied COVID Orders Sentenced To 90 Days In Jail (The Interchange, Albert Lea)

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Bar Owner Who Defied COVID Orders Sentenced To 90 Days In Jail, 12/10/21

The owner of a bar in Albert Lea was found guilty of six criminal misdemeanor charges and sentenced to 90 days in jail for defying Gov. Tim Walz’s executive orders to close her business last winter.

The jury found Lisa Hanson, 57, guilty after deliberating for an hour, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune reported.

Judge Joseph Bueltel gave her a 90-day jail sentence and a $1,000 fine. He says he wanted to send a message to people who violate executive orders.

Hanson had flaunted her defiance of an order to shut bars and restaurants to indoor dining late last year. She argued that Walz’s orders were unconstitutional.

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2021/12/10/bar-owner-who-defied-covid-orders-sentenced-to-90-days-in-jail/

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I used to monitor these Minnesota resistor bars' Facebook pages and carefully follow news stories about them during the winter shutdowns we had last winter.

It's hard to say who was the most obnoxious of them all. They all blathered Freedom and Constitution and American flags were everywhere. And glorifying veterans and the war dead for dying for our freedoms. And God of course, and our God-given freedoms. She was one of the most sickening, tiresome, and obnoxious.

https://www.facebook.com/theinterchange

Edited to add and God of course. Also the Facebook page. See left-side of page -- doesn't even have the decency to update that, one would think it's still open, despite a "The Interchange" comment on December 5 deep in one of the threads, "We’ve been closed since February 2021"

Edited to add This from MSN's version of the AP story --
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/minnesota-bar-owner-who-defied-virus-orders-found-guilty/ar-AARGUhX?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

She represented herself during the three-day trial and mostly argued that Walz's orders were unconstitutional.

“Liberty and freedom,” Hanson shouted as she was taken into custody by a sheriff's deputy.

Hanson has also been hit with fines totaling over $27,000 from separate legal actions brought after she left the state while facing the charges. Her business, The Interchange, closed in February.

[Ocelot II]

1. You'd think a professional journalist working for AP would know the difference

between flaunted and flouted, but apparently not. But you might say this bar owner flaunted her assholery by flouting the shutdown order.

[Bev54]

2. $1,000 fine is not enough. The courts need to make them hurt.

[Mawspam2]

4. $1000 in addition to the $27k fines by the state...

...plus Albert Lea cancelled her lease as of 12/31/21. She is out of business and behind bars.

[LakeVermilion]

5. But she owned the Lib's!

She sure showed them.

[iemanja]

3. good