Texas City Handing Out $1,000 Fines For Those Who Don’t Cover Their Faces

By Antonia Farzan, Washington Post U.S.
Fri, 04/03/2020 - 4:46am

“I’d rather bury them in debt than bury them in a coffin," one city council member, George Altgelt, said during a special council session.

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