Sheriff Lamb will not enforce Ducey’s order!

Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb joined Jeff to discuss why he will not enforce Governor Doug Ducey's executive order which has forced some businesses to close due to the coronavirus. 

“I will not cite nor are we gonna be issuing fines or arresting people for this”

“We don’t make criminals out of good people!”

“To take good hard working people who are the backbone of this country and the economy and your asking us to issue them a citation or fine because they wanna support their families and put their employees back to work”

“Above everything I think it’s unconstitutional”. 

“I won’t do it”. “I’m on the side of the constitution”

To those who are still afraid the sheriff had this to say: 

“Nobody’s stopping you from continuing to stay home”

“We can’t keep holding hostage 99.99% of Arizonan’s for the numbers that we have” 

 

According to the Sheriff,  the governor and his office have had little communication with Sheriffs and others before making these decisions. 

“I think they’re over looking the impacts of their decisions on public safety”

“We’re dealing with the repercussions of their decisions”

The Sheriff went on to say that he's seeing:

“Increased domestic violence. Neighbor problems.”

“The last three or four weeks, the intensity of the calls we’re going on has escalated like you wouldn’t  believe”. 

“I’ve had more suicides in the last 10 weeks than I have covid deaths in the county”


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