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Maili Beach Park nearly closed business on Labor Day due to the order to stay home and paints in the city house to mitigate the spread of COVID-19.
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At the top, they wearing a mask when they crossed Waimanalo Beach.
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Upstairs, an organization called Kia’i four Da Keiki organized a convoy Monday at Maunalua Bay in Hawaii Kai and ended up at Waianae Mall.
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The sandy beach park front was entrenched monday as a component of the closure of the island park.
Waimanalo’s beaches and parks in Waianae seemed unusually quiet on Labor Day, a sign that the citizens of Oahu were listening to the choir’s call to collect classic vacations amid daily instances of three-digit COVID-19 and ongoing deaths.
But two men were arrested Monday at Waianae Mall buying groceries for violating the order to go home from the island.
Entrances to Oahu’s beaches were blocked or blocked, and Sanda Sanchez, her sister and their families could not go to Maili Beach Park in the shadow of an awning as usual.
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So the families went down to the ocean to jump, as through Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s “Stay Home / Work from Home” ordinance, which expires Wednesday.
During a three-day general vacation, Sanchez said, “Maili Beach is crowded. “Then they dried up and spent part of the afternoon stroking a herd of horses in the mauka aspect of the Farrington Highway.
Most beach parks along the leeward coast had long sections without people, to other beaches and parks in Oahu.
Dozens of cars covered Ala Moana Boulevard and several others took surfboards through the park to reach the water. The same thing happened at Kailua Beach Park, where other people used kayaks through the park.
In Waimanalo, Drew Thomas spent the day in his friend’s space across the water, by a public road to the beach strip.
Attendance, especially during a festive weekend, “has come down, but it turns out that other people like to dress in masks,” Thomas said. “I’ve even noticed that other people are fishing with masks. Blocking this weekend is likely to be beneficial. “
The order to remain in the house and the paintings of the house came into force on August 27 to stop the spread of COVID-19, which produced a series of three-digit instances in Oahu.
The order followed Memorial Day and the four July holidays, which were attributed a momentary wave of COVID-19 cases on the mainland and in Oahu, leading to fears that more cases might arise after the Labor Day holiday.
This represented strict new regulations for Oahu citizens accustomed to enjoying public holidays in giant meetings, indoors or outdoors.
“Interior and social collections of any kind and number of other people are prohibited,” according to the order. “For the purposes of this ordinance, a ‘social collection’ is a collection or occasion that brings together other people from various families or housing sets at the same time for discreet, shared or organizational delight in a room, a space. or a position such as a personal house, park, auditorium, stadium, arena, convention room, dining room, meeting room or any other interior or space. “
But there are several exceptions, which add the crossing of closed parks to ocean activities.
Honolulu Police Department spokeswoman Michelle Yu told Honolulu Star-Advertiser in an email before Labor Day weekend that the COVID-19 app will work over the weekend. . . -be of all. »
Honolulu police reported violations at a rate of more than a hundred phone calls and a few dozen emails a day at 723-3900 and HPDCOVID enforce@honolulu. gov.
The command can be in 808ne. ws/2QPGKGi.
Leighton Badayos, 27, of Waianae arrested on three counts of violating the order to stay home with another man, Cole Hanson.
Badayos had organized a caravan of about 60 cars and more than a hundred others to raise public awareness of sex trafficking, especially child trafficking.
Before leaving Maunalua Bay Beach Park on Monday morning towards the Leeward coast, Badayos told the Star-Advertiser that dressing in a mask “is a form of silence. “
Members of Kia’i four Da Keiki said Badayos and Hanson had been arrested while having symptoms in the parking lot of Waianae Mall around 1. 30pm.
After being later released from the Honolulu Police Department’s Kapolei post on $2,600 bail, Badayos said he did not dress in a mask, like many others in Oahu on Monday, and was attacked for expressing his First Amendment rights.
Kia’i four Da Keiki members said they also supported a demonstration in Honolulu Hale on Monday against ordering them to stay at Caldwell’s house, but said no one was arrested there for expressing their First Amendment rights or for not dressing in a mask. , according to Sonia Gomes, member of Kia’i four Da Keiki.
Honolulu Hale has been the scene of past lockdown protests, adding many others who also sought to show their support for President Donald Trump.
Kia’i four Da Keiki members said they had symptoms at Waianae Mall when 10 HPD cars arrived with nearly 20 officers.
“We had to protest peacefully,” said Lorrain Scanlan, a member of the group.
Some members insisted that everyone wore a mask and maintained social estating as they carried symptoms that said “Kia’i Da Keiki”.
When asked if he was wearing a mask and if he kept a social distance, Badayos replied to the Star-Advertiser: “No, I’m not dressed in a mask . . . They’re looking to put a mask on our faces. “to keep quiet.
Badayos, 27, of Waianae, said he owned his own shipping business. Badayos said he was arrested on suspicion of three counts of violating the order to remain at Caldwell’s house.
“They said we didn’t disperse,” Badayos. No hanson was told to comment.
Badayos said Hanson raised $5,200 to rescue them from Kapolei’s HPD substation.
After his release, Badayos told the Star-Advertiser that he had a court date in November and was the target of “peaceful protest and exercise of our right to the First Amendment. “
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