Watch: Texas Salon
Owner Refuses to Apologize to Judge for Working to Feed Her Kids During
Lockdown
BREITBART
By Bob Price5 May 2020
A Dallas hair salon owner in a contempt hearing for
re-opening her business under lockdown told the judge that “feeding my kids is
not selfish.” Her comments came after the judge offered her the opportunity to
avoid jail time by apologizing and admitting her actions were wrong.
“I have to disagree with you sir when you that I’m
selfish [for re-opening the salon].” Salon Á la Mode owner Shelly Luther
told Judge Eric Moyé during a contempt of court proceeding broadcast on
the internet and tweeted by CBSDFW reporter Andrea Lucia, “because feeding my
kids is not selfish.”
Judge Eric Moyé presides over the 14th Civil
District Court located in Dallas County. Dallas County issued an order to
Luther requiring her to close her business after she opened in defiance of the
stay at home Coronavirus lockdown.
Luther told the judge, “I have hairstylists that are
going hungry because they’d rather feed their kids. So, sir, if you think the
law is more important than kids getting fed then please go ahead with your
decision but I am not going to shut the salon.”
Prior to her statement, Judge Moyé said she must see
the errors of her ways and “understand that the society cannot function where
one’s own belief in a concept of liberty permits you to flaunt your disdain for
the rulings of duly elected officials.”
“That you owe an apology to the elected officials who you
disrespected by flagrantly ignoring, and in one case defiling, their orders you
now know obviously apply to you,” Moyé lectured. “That you understand that
the proper way in which an ordered society to engage concerns that you might
have had is to hire a lawyer and advocate for change an exception or an
amendment to laws that you find offensive.”
Lucia reported that the judge ordered her jailed for
seven days and fined $500 for every day the salon remains open. So far, the
fine stands at $3,500.
Luther’s attorney said he would appeal the judge’s
ruling.
The contempt hearing occurred at about the time Texas
Governor Greg Abbott announced that hair salons and gyms could re-open on
Friday.
Read prior coverage of the salon owner’s efforts to
re-open her business here.
Bob
Price serves as associate editor and senior news
contributor for the Breitbart
Texas-Border team. He is an original member of the Breitbart Texas
team. Price is a regular panelist on Fox 26 Houston’s What’s Your Point? Sunday-morning
talk show. Follow him on Twitter @BobPriceBBTX and Facebook.
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