Son of Winslow shop owner shut down by P.D. shares his fathers story.

Jeremy Mazon, one of the son's of Daniel Mazon, a 71 year old Winslow business owner, discusses his father being detained and cited by the Winslow Police Department on April 11th for refusing to shutdown his store, Authentic Indian Arts.

According to accounts of the incident and a Winslow PD press release, the Mayor of Winslow, Tom McCauley, visited the store on April 9th after receiving complaints that the store remained open despite Governor Ducey's executive order that unessential businesses should be closed due to the coronavirus.

According to the police report Mayor McCauley "deemed the store to be in violation" and notified Winslow PD of the alleged violation. That same day Winslow PD showed up to inform the owner of the violation. On April 11, Winslow PD returned to find the shop remained open and ultimately detained Mr. Mazon in handcuffs and placed him in the back of the police car for allegedly failing to show the officers identification. Mr. Mazon was not arrested and was released and cited with a pending court appearance on the matter. According to Jeremy Mazon, the store has remained closed since the incident occurred. 

The Jeff Oravits Show was the first to share this story after Representative Bret Roberts brought this to light on the show Tuesday. 

The incident has sparked statewide debate as to the extent and fairness of Governor Ducey's closure order and why larger stores that sell similar products can remain open while smaller businesses are forced to close their doors.

On Thursday President Trump released a plan to encourage Governors to re-open their states as early as May 1st. Protests around the country have picked up in recent days demanding that Governors and Mayors ease and ultimately lift closure orders. An Arizona protest is scheduled for noon on Sunday, April 19th at the capitol in Phoenix.

Since the coronavirus shutdown began about a month ago, an estimated 22,000,000 Americans have lost their jobs and trillions of dollars have been printed by the federal reserve and a 2 trillion plus stimulus package was approved by Congress. The nations national debt has exceeded $24 trillion and multi trillion deficits are now expected. As of Thursday nearly $350 billion earmarked for small business loans was already out of funds. 

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