Charges dropped against Michigan barber who defied Whitmer’s lockdown orders

Published October 20, 2020 12:51pm ET



Charges against a Michigan barber who defied Gov. Gretchen Whitmer’s coronavirus lockdown orders by reopening his barbershop in May have been dropped.

“It’s definitely a weight off my shoulders,” the barber, Karl Manke, said. “I just want to earn a living, and I am not a health threat to anyone.”

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