{"id":31990,"date":"2021-01-13T09:20:11","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T14:20:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=31990"},"modified":"2021-01-13T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2021-01-13T17:29:00","slug":"nelson-police-responded-to-holiday-mask-related-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/nelson-police-responded-to-holiday-mask-related-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Nelson police responded to holiday mask-related incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After <a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/mask-mandate-sparks-varied-response-in-nelson\/\">a spitting incident<\/a> in Nelson, B.C. made national headlines in November, the Nelson Police Department (NPD) has arrested another person for refusing to wear a mask in a caf\u00e9.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The initial incident at Empire Coffee occurred on Nov. 20, the day after the province mandate was announced that required masks in public indoor spaces. After a man spat on an employee at the business, the employee had a heart attack and required hospitalization.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The latest arrest took place at Oso Negro caf\u00e9 in Nelson on Dec. 31. The NPD issued a charge under the COVID-19 Related Measures Act \u2014 the second charge under the act they\u2019ve recommended. One was a violation ticket of $230.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the last year, Staff Sgt. Brian Weber said the NPD have dealt with around 93 COVID-19-related calls for service, out of an annual average of 6,400 calls.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He said the police have been mostly successful with voluntary compliance once they attend a situation. Weber said it is difficult to compare Nelson\u2019s response to other communities. Although he\u2019s heard of other police departments writing more tickets, Nelson\u2019s small population makes the numbers difficult to put in perspective.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the holidays, Weber said there were very few calls to the NPD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Weber said that he personally feels claustrophobic wearing a mask, but is happy to do so in the line of duty he says we all share: to protect one another.<\/span><\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-31990-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MaskArrests.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MaskArrests.mp3\">https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/MaskArrests.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a spitting incident in Nelson, B.C. made national headlines in November, the Nelson Police Department (NPD) has arrested another person for refusing to wear a mask in a caf\u00e9. The initial incident at Empire Coffee occurred on Nov. 20, the day after the province mandate was announced that required masks in public indoor spaces.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":31999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[218,3265],"tags":[979,284,4944,4943],"radio":[1420],"origine":[280,2165,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31990"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=31990"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=31990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}