Wow! Welcome to Nazi, America where people are told to remain inside and face fines and jail time if they venture out into the sun.
As you can see in the video below, a father was arrested in Brighton, Colorado for throwing a softball outside with his daughter in an empty field. They were practicing social distancing and not breaking any laws. Yet he was arrested. Why?
Matt Mooney took to Facebook to share the video that had already begun to circulate, and added some backstory to what happened. He wrote:
"Thank you to all of those that have shown support or reached out. I appologize if i didn't respond to your comments or messages but i haven't been able to keep up with the outpouring of support. I know alot of you are questioning what happened and i was keeping a lot of information private until i spoke with a lawyer and fox31 new. This story will be airing on fox31 during the 5pm broadcast. I don't have an exact time slot as of yet."
Mooney continued, "On Sunday April 5th, 2020 at approximately 4:00pm my wife, 6 year old daughter, and myself went to an open space located in our neighborhood in Brighton, Colorado. We were simply playing around with a softball and enjoying the weather a bit. This was in compliance with the press release put out by the city prior to that stated all playgrounds, facilities, and equipment were off limits to limit the spread of COVID-19. It also states that walkways, trails, and open spaces were acceptable. The state and city have been encouraging people to go to local parks to exercise and be outside so long as you practice social distancing and limit the group to 4 or less people."
At approximately 4:30pm three Brighton Police Officers (M. Hughes, S. Rogers, and F. Zarate) showed up at the park. We were told we had to leave because the "park" was closed." He said, "This open space backs up to the park but is still classified as an open space. I told the officers that I was not going to leave and they could write me a citation if they had to. I knew I was well within my rights and was going to just fight this in the legal system. Two of the officers spent the next 20 minutes on a cell phone while the third officer made everyone else leave the park."
The father continued, "After everyone else had left they came back to my family and demanded my information. Since I had not committed any crime I am not obligated to provide them with any information and can refuse to speak with them. They then threatened that if I didn't provide them with information so they could write me a $500 citation then they would put me in handcuffs and take me to be booked and processed in front of my 6 year old daughter. I informed them then go ahead because I wasn't giving up my rights."
"I was placed in handcuffs in front of my 6 year old daughter and hauled off to the patrol car," Mooney recalled. "During this time none of the officers were wearing any personal protective equipment and easily could have exposed me to COVID-19. I was placed in the back of the patrol car and left sitting there for over 10 minutes why two officers were joking and laughing and the 3rd was still on his cell phone. After this i was taken out of the car and released with the excuse that these are trying times and everyone is still trying to figure this out. I never got an appology or anything."
He then asked the Brighton Police Department, "Since when are constitutional rights something that is new? How are officers enforcing anything that they aren't properly trained on?"
What is going on?? I think we are all waiting on a response from the Brighton Police Department.
UpdateThank you to all of those that have shown support or reached out. I appologize if i didn't respond to your comments or messages but i haven't been able to keep up with the outpouring of support. I know alot of you are questioning what happened and i was keeping a lot of information private until i spoke with a lawyer and fox31 new. This story will be airing on fox31 during the 5pm broadcast. I don't have an exact time slot as of yet. So here is my story:On Sunday April 5th, 2020 at approximately 4:00pm my wife, 6 year old daughter, and myself went to an open space located in our neighborhood in Brighton, Colorado. We were simply playing around with a softball and enjoying the weather a bit. This was in compliance with the press release put out by the city prior to that stated all playgrounds, facilities, and equipment were off limits to limit the spread of COVID-19. It also states that walkways, trails, and open spaces were acceptable. The state and city have been encouraging people to go to local parks to exercise and be outside so long as you practice social distancing and limit the group to 4 or less people. At approximately 4:30pm three Brighton Police Officers (M. Hughes, S. Rogers, and F. Zarate) showed up at the park. We were told we had to leave because the "park" was closed. This open space backs up to the park but is still classified as an open space. I told the officers that I was not going to leave and they could write me a citation if they had to. I knew I was well within my rights and was going to just fight this in the legal system. Two of the officers spent the next 20 minutes on a cell phone while the third officer made everyone else leave the park. After everyone else had left they came back to my family and demanded my information. Since I had not committed any crime I am not obligated to provide them with any information and can refuse to speak with them. They then threatened that if I didn't provide them with information so they could write me a $500 citation then they would put me in handcuffs and take me to be booked and processed in front of my 6 year old daughter. I informed them then go ahead because I wasn't giving up my rights. I was placed in handcuffs in front of my 6 year old daughter and hauled off to the patrol car. During this time none of the officers were wearing any personal protective equipment and easily could have exposed me to COVID-19. I was placed in the back of the patrol car and left sitting there for over 10 minutes why two officers were joking and laughing and the 3rd was still on his cell phone. After this i was taken out of the car and released with the excuse that these are trying times and everyone is still trying to figure this out. I never got an appology or anything.My question for Brighton Police Department is since when are constitutional rights something that is new? How are officers enforcing anything that they aren't properly trained on?
Posted by Matt Mooney on Monday, April 6, 2020
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