‘I’m Legally Allowed to Exist’: Florida Cops Detain Man for Wearing Mask In Public While Exercising, Bodycam Video Show

It was only a few years ago that police in this country were arresting people for not wearing masks in public during the COVID-19 pandemic. But a newly surfaced video from last summer shows Florida police detaining a man for walking down the street while wearing a ski mask and listening to music from a radio he was carrying. The Titusville police officers told the man they received a call about a man wearing a mask and carrying a gun, but an audio recording of the call to dispatch shows the caller was not even sure she saw a gun. Florida cops detained a man for legally walking down the street while wearing a mask. (Photo: Body Camera) “There was a guy in a ski mask and a backpack, and I don’t want to say he put a gun in the bag, but it just looked really suspicious,” the woman told the dispatcher in a recording that can be heard in the video below. Furthermore, a controversial state law that went into effect in 2023 allows citizens to carry concealed weapons without a permit, so even if he had a gun, it would not have been illegal as long as...