<p>On Tuesday, Fresno County Sheriff Margaret Mims of California said she is not enforcing Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom&#8217;s lockdown order, noting that her team has their &#8220;hands full trying to re-arrest&#8221; criminals who are out on &#8220;zero-dollar bail,&#8221; a policy implemented in 2019.</p>
<p>&#8220;I’ve heard multiple sheriffs around the nation state they will not enforce their governors’ shelter-in-place orders. Is that your position?&#8221; asked Trevor Carey, host of the <em>Trevor Carey Show</em>.</p>
<p>“That is my position,&#8221; the sheriff <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2020/05/14/fresno-county-sheriff-wont-enforce-stay-at-home-orders-too-busy-re-arresting-freed-criminals/">answered</a> in the affirmative. &#8220;We do not stop the public to find out what they’re doing when they’re not sheltering in place. We don’t ask those questions, we don’t ask if they’re ‘essential’.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;We’ve got our hands full trying to re-arrest people that are released due to zero-dollar bail,&#8221; she explained. &#8220;So we’ve got other things that are on our mind that are more important than stopping normally law-abiding citizens.”</p>
<p>In August of 2018, California set in motion their &#8220;zero-dollar bail&#8221; policy.</p>
<p>&#8220;California will become the first state in the nation to abolish bail for suspects awaiting trial under a sweeping reform bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown,&#8221; <a href="https://www.npr.org/2018/08/28/642795284/california-becomes-first-state-to-end-cash-bail">NPR</a> reported at the time. &#8220;An overhaul of the state&#8217;s bail system has been in the works for years, and became an inevitability earlier this year when a California appellate court declared the state&#8217;s cash bail system unconstitutional. The new law goes into effect in October 2019.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Today, California reforms its bail system so that rich and poor alike are treated fairly,&#8221; Brown said in a statement.</p>
<p>Moreover, as noted by <a href="https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-03-31/coronavirus-california-release-3500-inmates-prisons">The Los Angeles Times</a> in March, the blue state granted early release to 3,500 inmates &#8220;in an effort to reduce crowding as coronavirus infections begin spreading through the state prison system.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Lawyers for Gov. Gavin Newsom on Tuesday told a panel of federal judges the state is taking &#8216;extraordinary and unprecedented protective measures&#8217; to slow the spread of the virus and protect those who live and work within California’s 35 prisons,&#8221; the report said. &#8220;The accelerated prison discharges — affecting inmates due to be released over the next 60 days — come in the face of pressure to do much more.&#8221;</p>
<p>Tensions in Fresno over the lockdown are at a high. As noted by <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-fresno-official-gets-violent-with-stay-at-home-protesters-gets-cited-for-battery">The Daily Wire</a>, liberal Fresno city council president Miguel Arias was cited for battery after a confrontation with anti-lockdown self-described independent journalists.</p>
<p>&#8220;An incident caught on video has resulted in three misdemeanor battery citations against a Fresno City Council member after he got violent with a group of self-described independent journalists pushing back on the city’s extended &#8216;shelter-in-place&#8217; order,&#8221; the report outlined, adding, &#8220;The incident took place at the council member’s apartment building at around 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, where a group of men and women appeared at the apartment to confront him about the damage done to people’s lives by the city’s &#8216;shutdown&#8217; orders, which Arias supports and which Fresno Mayor Lee Brand recently <a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/news/coronavirus/article242434251.html">extended</a> to May 31, prompting hundreds of Fresno residents to protest in front of City Hall last week.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-fresno-official-gets-violent-with-stay-at-home-protesters-gets-cited-for-battery">WATCH: Fresno Official Gets Violent With Stay-At-Home Protesters; Gets Cited For Battery</a></strong></p>
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