Police in Victoria arrested a man in the latest confrontation over the province’s new order requiring masks in indoor public places to combat COVID-19.
Police stated that they were called to a grocery store in the 900 block of Yates Street around 10:30 AM to reports of a man physically and verbally confronting staff over his refusal to wear a mask.
A video posted to Reddit and shared by police shows a man standing face-to-face with a group of employees, calling them “psychopaths.”
The person who shot the video shared that the man stormed into the store aggressively and started yelling about the mask policy. When staff told him they’d called police, he bragged that he was going to fight the officers.
The police stated that the staff offered the man a mask, which he refused. When patrol officers arrived, the man approached them in a threatening manner. The man was arrested and issued a $230 fine under the COVID Related Measures Act for abusive or belligerent behavior.
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