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San Diego’s NBC News affiliate reports: A Pacific Beach bar manager was violently attacked Labor Day weekend after asking patrons to wear their facemasks and it was all caught on video. That employee tells NBC 7 he doesn’t want this to happen to anyone else and fears it could if the man who attacked him isn’t held responsible. “Watching the …

The New York Daily News reports: An irate woman called one worker in a Manhattan Verizon store a “fat ugly n—-r” and hurled a trash can at another — all because they asked her to wear a mask, shocking video shared on social media shows. Employees at the Upper East Side store on E. 69th St. store near Third Ave. …

The Winston-Salem Journal reports: President Donald Trump should wear a mask during his campaign stop Tuesday in Winston-Salem, says the Republican chairman of Forsyth’s county commission. Trump will speak at 7 p.m. at Smith Reynolds Airport, the Trump campaign said. Doors will open at 4 p.m. Dave Plyler says he believes Trump should wear a mask while he is here. …

The Washington Examiner reports: “You’re going to have to take that off, please. You can take it off. How many feet are you away?” Trump asked in response to a question he said was muffled. “I’ll speak a lot louder,” the reporter said. “Well, if you don’t take it off — you’re very muffled. So, if you would take it …

The New York Post reports: A Brooklyn couple was cuffed and hauled off a city ferry Saturday night after refusing to wear face masks — as other riders cheered their arrest, according to cops and video. “This has been going on since March, and my husband is fucking pissed off,” the woman said. “Every time I have to commute to …

Via email from Matt Foreman, former executive director of the National LGBTQ Task Force: Three weeks ago, I was looking down into my husband’s unblinking eyes, seeing blood spill from his nose and mouth, and feeling my hand trying to stop the bleeding from the back of his head. In the background someone kept yelling, “Apply pressure! Apply pressure! Apply …

West Palm Beach’s CBS News affiliate reports: The 28-year-old man who pulled a gun on another customer at Walmart in July during an argument over face masks is no longer facing charges. Court records show that the State Attorney’s Office didn’t file charges against Vincent Bruce Scavetta, saying that although there was probable cause to arrest him, the current evidence …

The Associated Press reports: North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis said on Friday he “fell short of my own standard” by failing to keep his face mask on in the White House crowd while listening to President Donald Trump accept the Republican nomination. Tillis, who is in a tough reelection bid against Democrat Cal Cunningham, has been consistently talking up face …

The Associated Press reports: Angry, maskless spectators forced themselves into the Idaho House special session on the coronavirus pandemic Monday, shattering a glass door, rushing into the gallery that had limited seating because of the virus and forcing lawmakers to ask for calm in a crowd that included a man carrying an assault-style weapon. “This is our house,” said Allen …

Business Insider reports: The former Navy SEAL famous for his part in the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden was banned by Delta Air Lines after he refused to wear a mask aboard a flight, and bragged about it on Twitter. Robert J. O’Neill, a former Navy SEAL who claims to have fired the shot that killed Osama Bin Laden …

San Francisco’s ABC News affiliate reports: In the South Bay, a racist and homophobic rant was caught on camera. The public meltdown happened at a Marshall’s department store in Campbell on Monday, stemming from a request to wear a mask. “What’s your dumb fucking faggot problem? You don’t know the law? That’s how stupid you are,” the man said to …

Philadelphia’s NBC News affiliate reports: Two New Yorkers now charged for an attack that broke the jaw of a teenage Sesame Place worker in a face mask dispute earlier this month at the Bucks County, Pennsylvania, theme park. The “unwarranted brutal assault” left the teen hospitalized for almost a week, Middletown Township police said. On Wednesday morning, U.S Marshals arrested …

Axios reports: The Trump campaign announced it had started selling face masks on Monday, saying President Trump “urges all patriotic Americans to wear a face cover when they are unable to socially distance.” Trump initially refused to wear face masks and called them a “double-edged sword.” He also appeared to mock presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden for wearing a …

The Guardian reports: Sharon Stone has condemned “non-mask wearers” for the fate of her younger sister, who is hospitalised with coronavirus and “fighting for her life”. The actor, 62, shared photographs on Instagram of the equipment in her sister’s room, as well as a medical worker in full PPE. She wrote in the caption: “My sister Kelly, who already has …

The Tennessean reports: A Tennessee Highway Patrol trooper accused of ripping a face mask off a bystander filming a traffic stop has been terminated. A THP spokesman confirmed Trooper Harvey Briggs’ termination Friday evening after an internal investigation by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security. Briggs was found to have violated a department policy and was terminated for …

The Austin Statesman reports: Austin police have arrested a man who a North Austin grocery store says broke all of the business’ windows after an employee asked him to wear a mask. Police on Thursday told the American-Statesman that they had arrested 31-year-old Wayne Ayres in connection to the vandalism at Fresh Plus Grocer in Hyde Park. The store manager …

NBC News reports: The gloves are off — and the masks are on. A day after Joe Biden called for a national mask mandate as part of his coronavirus plan, the presumptive Democratic presidential candidate released a campaign ad calling out the Trump administration for its pandemic response. “We’re seeing it again: the virus spreading out of control. The president …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday withdrew his lawsuit challenging the city of Atlanta’s mask mandate and coronavirus restrictions, ending a legal feud between the Republican governor and the Democratic leader of the state’s capital city over how to contain the pandemic. Kemp said he will instead sign an executive order Saturday that is expected to specify …

Philadelphia’s NBC News affiliate reports: A man punched a 17-year-old Sesame Place employee in the face after the teen reminded him to wear a mask, police said. A teen employee told an unidentified man and woman that they were required to wear masks while in the park due to COVID-19. Later that day, around 5 p.m., the same man confronted …

Fox News reports: A man in Washington state was arrested Saturday and charged with assault after allegedly breaking the jaw of a 72-year-old disabled veteran in a hotel lobby in a dispute over coronavirus masks. Cody P. Hansen, 35, [photo] was arrested at his home in Spokane, Wash., on Saturday after police received an anonymous tip. He has been charged …