Health Inspector Enforcing Mask Order Shoots 3 People In San Francisco
Notice how the San Francisco Health Department inspector is supposedly enforcing the mask order under the pretext of "keeping people safe," yet in doing so he discharged his revolver, indiscriminately shooting into a crowd of people, striking three. He could have easily killed many people but he didn't care. His deranged "WEAR YOUR MASK OR ELSE!" power-trip was obviously his primary goal.
The only difference between this story 102 years ago and today is that Miller was arrested and charged with assault with a deadly weapon. Today, he'd probably be given a medal and a promotion.
Excerpt from the San Francisco Chronicle, 1918:
THREE SHOT IN STRUGGLE WITH MASK SLACKER
Blacksmith strikes health inspector striving to enforce order
Two men and a woman were shot yesterday at Powell and Market streets when Henry D. Miller, an inspector in the city Health Department, discharged his revolver in a battle with James Wiser, a blacksmith, who refused to don a gauze influenza mask at the order of the health officer.
Wisser was one of the wounded, being shot in the arm and leg. Henry Appleton, 63 years old, 124 Belvedere Street, was shot in the leg by one of the four bullets fired by Miller, as was a woman whose name could not be learned by police, she having gone at once to her home after learning her wound was slight.
The police report that Miller found Wisser standing at the corner waving his arms and urging a crowd to dispense with the masks. "They are the bunk," he is reported to have said."
"Miller led him toward the drug store, insisting he purchase a mask. At the door of the store the blacksmith struck Miller with a sack containing a large number of silver dollars, and them knocked him to the ground."
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— Victor (@Victor47502531) August 8, 2020
This story from 1918 illustrates how crazy, irrational and dangerous the 'mask enforcers' are and have always been. pic.twitter.com/Qn5307DvX1
"Miller led him toward the drug store, insisting he purchase a mask. At the door of the store the blacksmith struck Miller with a sack containing a large number of silver dollars, and them knocked him to the ground." ๐๐๐ฐ๐ฎ pic.twitter.com/bhPNqCOhvn
— Victor (@Victor47502531) August 8, 2020
"Miller was taken in the central station and a charge of assault with a deadly weapon was filed. He is 52 years old and had been in the city Health Department for a number of years. He is suffering from a badly bruised eye and cuts about the head from the attack by Wisser."๐ ๐ pic.twitter.com/8iUfF8aVLx
— Victor (@Victor47502531) August 8, 2020
Wisser and Appleton were treated at Central Emergency Hospital. The blacksmith was then charged with disturbing the peace, resisting an officer, and assault." pic.twitter.com/Y11NNlJsnb
— Victor (@Victor47502531) August 8, 2020
"The police learned he had been arrested on Sunday night and locked up at the Poltaro station on a charge of being drunk, and released yesterday shortly before the shooting."
— Victor (@Victor47502531) August 8, 2020
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Here's a full-page pic pic.twitter.com/tdXcm4BMql
— Victor (@Victor47502531) August 8, 2020