On Saturday, a Kansas man was arrested after his parents and their children waved sticks at them and said they were trying to enter a vaccine clinic.
According to Lawrence, the suspect was arrested for severe beatings on Saturday morning. police Department.
Justin Paul Spiehs, 40, is a famous anti-mask protester in the area. according to Kansas reflectorThe newspaper reported that he had been displayed outside the Lawrence Public School building, where there is a regulation for students to wear masks.
Saturday’s incident occurred in a middle school, and the local health department is opening a vaccine clinic for children.
In an email Weekly newspaper, The Lawrence Police Department said it responded to the incident shortly before 10 am on Saturday.
“The police arrived at the scene and contacted the victim and the victim’s children. They reported that when the suspect met them, they were trying to enter a nearby vaccine clinic,” Police Lieutenant David Ernst wrote. “The victim reported that the suspect separated a stick from the sign that the suspect was holding and started waving the stick at them, making the victim afraid of physical harm.”
Ernst said the police will submit an affidavit to the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office to “conduct an allegation review.”
Daniel Smith, spokesperson for the Lawrence-Douglas County Department of Public Health, who runs the clinic, told Kansas reflector So far, the department has not had other “notable incidents” in its vaccine clinics, and there is not much information about what happened on Saturday.
“The main thing we know is from the parents who came in. Our main concern is their safety,” Smith said.
Scott Olson
In various incidents across the country, people have been accused of intimidating health officials with the COVID-19 vaccine.
Three mobile COVID-19 vaccination clinics in Colorado in September Temporarily closed After the motorist harassed the staff.
Jefferson County Public Health Executive Director Dr. Dawn Comstock said: “While this behavior appears to come from a small group of radicals empowered by false information and lies, these incidents seem to happen more frequently. The intensity is also greater,” the Colorado Department of Public Health said at the time. “This kind of violence against public health is unacceptable.”
In California in May, A group of California women armed with guns call themselves “Mamalitia” Accused of intimidating public health officials with regard to vaccines.
Last month, a man in Texas Prosecuted for allegedly threatening a Maryland doctor Who advocates the COVID-19 vaccine.
