{"id":503320,"date":"2021-05-13T08:06:10","date_gmt":"2021-05-13T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=503320"},"modified":"2021-05-13T08:19:23","modified_gmt":"2021-05-13T12:19:23","slug":"watch-desantis-pardons-couple-arrested-for-keeping-gym-open-then-pardons-anyone-arrested-for-not-masking-or-social-distancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-desantis-pardons-couple-arrested-for-keeping-gym-open-then-pardons-anyone-arrested-for-not-masking-or-social-distancing\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: WATCH: Governor Ron DeSantis Pardons Anyone Arrested For Not Masking Or Social Distancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwatch-desantis-pardons-couple-arrested-for-keeping-gym-open-then-pardons-anyone-arrested-for-not-masking-or-social-distancing%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=503320&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>On Tuesday night, appearing on Fox News\u2019 \u201cIngraham Angle\u201d with host Laura Ingraham and her guests, a husband and wife who had been arrested in their county for keeping their gym open during the coronavirus pandemic, Florida Governor DeSantis announced live on national television that he would make sure they were pardoned, then added that he would make sure pardons were issued \u201cfor any Floridian that may have outstanding infractions for things like masks and social distancing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As far back as last September DeSantis had stated, \u201cAll outstanding fines and penalties that have been applied against individuals are suspended. I think we need to get away\u00a0from trying to penalize people for social distancing and just work with people constructively.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But some counties still punished residents for refusing to wear masks or countenancing such behavior; in Broward County, Mike and Jillian Carnevale, gym owners from Plantation, Florida, were repeatedly arrested for refusing to enforce a mask mandate.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/Mike-Jillian-Carnevale-fight-for-your-freedom?utm_campaign=p_cp_url&#038;utm_medium=os&#038;utm_source=customer\">GoFundMe page<\/a> set up by supporters of the Carnevales provides the following timeline of their case:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>In direct retaliation to a lawsuit filed on July 26, 2020, Broward County began harassing Mike and Jillian Carnevale at the gym they owned. Taking a stand for the health and freedom of his community and country, Mike Carnevale was arrested on July 27th, August 6th, and August 7th for not enforcing facial coverings during strenuous exercise.\u00a0 Jillian Carnevale was also arrested on August 7th.\u00a0On October 15th 2020, Broward county attacked freedom and wellness yet again by leveraging them out of our business and closing their community gym for good.\u00a0 This has left Mike and Jillian Carnevale in a state of shock and financial devastation, but this was not satisfactory for Broward County.\u00a0 On February 10th, 2021, Judge Robert Diaz offered a plea deal of 10 days in Jail and a diversion program to Mike Carnevale for the crime of \u201cViolation of Disaster Preparedness Emergency Management.\u201d<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Carnevales <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-9573893\/Governor-Florida-grants-clemency-punished-COVID-rule-violations.html\">appeared<\/a> on the \u201cIngraham Angle\u201d along with their attorney, Cory Strolla.<\/p>\n<p>Mike Carnevale told Ingraham, \u201cTwo months after gyms reopened in South Florida, Broward County came down with a mandate saying that facial coverings had to be worn during strenuous exercise. Wee filed a lawsuit against Broward County for this; 24 hours after the lawsuit was filed we were arrested. We were arrested three times in total; they seized our business; they offered us 10 days in jail. We declined that and now I\u2019m looking at six months in prison. They also arrested Jillian here as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham turned to Strolla, asking, \u201cWhat are the prospects here of getting any assistance or help?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Strolla answered: \u201cWell, we really at this point have to rely on Governor DeSantis; I hate to put it into his lap and his executive general counsel\u2019s lap, but we\u2019ve got a politically activist judge that originally told Mike and Jillian before I was ever retained that the states was offering a diversion program and the judge said he was going to personally decline it and it was the judge that said the only resolution he would approve is a 10-day jail sentence for Mike and that was before Jillian\u2019s case was transferred in. So the way Broward County charged it, Mike is facing actually two second-degree misdemeanors for a total of 120 days in jail and Jillian is facing one for a total of 60 days in jail. All for basically not having people not wear masks while exercising.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham then turned to DeSantis, saying it sounded as if Broward County was thumbing their nose at him, asking, \u201cWhat can you do?\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a total overreach, Laura,\u201d DeSantis replied. \u201cThis is exactly what we ordered against last summer, many, many months ago. And so I was actually just recently briefed on this case, and we looked at it and so I\u2019m glad you had Mike and Jillian on, and I\u2019m also glad to be on to be able to say that effective tomorrow morning I\u2019m going to sign a reprieve under my constitutional authority, so that\u2019ll delay the case for 60 days against both of them. And then when our clemency board meets in the coming weeks, we\u2019ll issue pardons not only for Mike and Jillian, but for any Floridian that may have outstanding infractions for things like masks and social distancing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe fact is, it\u2019s not even right to be wearing masks when you\u2019re exercising,\u201d he continued. \u201cThe World Health Organization advises against it. It\u2019s not healthy for people to be doing that in the first place. So it was a bad restriction. But these things with health should be advisory; they should not be punitive. And so we\u2019re happy to use our constitutional authority. I think they\u2019ve been treated poorly and fortunately they\u2019ve got a governor that cares.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ingraham turned back to the Carnevales, asking, \u201cHow dies that feel to the Carnevales? You just got your reprieve on national television?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mike, choking up, answered, \u201cThank you. Governor DeSantis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThank you,\u201d Jill said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe appreciate that a lot,\u201d added Mike.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Ron DeSantis grants clemency to &#039;Ingraham Angle&#039; guests on live TV\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NS8czPfg3lY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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