Portland, OR, Supports Some Exceptions To Wearing Mandatory Masks -- June 23, 2020

Our younger daughter lives in Multnomah County, Oregon.

At first I thought this was from the Babylon Bee. 

From Willamette (Oregon) Week:

Efforts by Portland-area elected officials to be racially sensitive blocked a mask requirement across Multnomah County earlier this month.

"For Black men, according to The New York Times," Multnomah County Commissioner Lori Stegmann said in early June, "the fear is that masks will expose them to harassment from the police."

This concern made Portland an anomaly. Nationally, pushback on masks has been more typically associated with President Donald Trump and his allies in the Republican Party. In Montgomery, AL, for example, Black leaders and doctors pushed for a mask requirement that was voted down by a white majority of the city council.

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