South Texas restrictions were meant to protect people from COVID-19. Then the handcuffs and ticket books came out.
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The day that Dallas salon owner Shelley Luther was arrested for reopening her business in defiance of Texas emergency stay-home orders, Robin Torres sat in a county jail 500 miles away facing the consequences of his own failure to follow such rules.