WATCH: California Police Go After Elderly Couple for Simply Sitting in Chairs; North Carolina Police Arrest Man for Attempting to Reopen His Business, Others May Follow Suit

By Western Journalism. Every now and then, a viral video comes along that isn’t so much about what is happening during the moment captured as it is about what is going on in the world at large.

Such is the case with recent footage of an incident in which a police officer reportedly told a 93-year-old couple they were not allowed to sit on folding chairs on a beach in Oxnard, California.

The clip says more about the government’s overreach during the coronavirus pandemic than it does about what happened to the couple. . .

According to report, the problem arose because setting up a folding chair in the sand created a “a permanent place as opposed to the temporary nature of sitting on the sand itself.”

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North Carolina Police Arrest Man for Attempting to Reopen His Business, Others May Follow Suit

By Red State. As RedState managing editor Streiff wrote earlier today, the “Reopen” rebellion against North Carolina’s stay at home order is in full effect.

The arrests of protesters are continuing as well, with four arrested during Tuesday’s ReopenNC protest, which was the third one held to date.

But in a disturbing incident that happened around lunchtime today, an Apex, NC man was seen on video being being led away by police from his business in handcuffs after attempting to reopen his tattoo parlor:

Police arrest Apex tattoo artist who opened in defiance of order ⁦@newsobserver⁩ pic.twitter.com/kYaZgxP1zT

— Josh Shaffer (@joshshaffer08) April 29, 2020

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