{"id":10918,"date":"2020-08-06T09:57:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-06T09:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/?p=10918"},"modified":"2020-08-06T09:57:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-06T09:57:43","slug":"not-handling-the-pandemic-well-man-fires-at-officers-with-ak-47-after-refusing-to-wear-a-mask-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/2020\/08\/06\/not-handling-the-pandemic-well-man-fires-at-officers-with-ak-47-after-refusing-to-wear-a-mask-police-say\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Not handling the pandemic well\u2019: Man fires at officers with AK-47 after refusing to wear a mask, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WHITE PRIVILEGE: So let me get this straight a man ,😒🤔 white man, walks into a store was asked to put on a mask, REFUSES, STEALS then goes to his car an PULL A HANDGUN and shoots AT the cashier. Watch this part though. THE NEXT DAY POLICE GO TO ARREST HIM! 😒 He SHOOTS HIS AK-47 AT THE POLICE in a shootout and was arrested ALIVE and they say \u201cHe\u2026was just not handling the pandemic well.\u201d – Nickole Duncan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When a cigar shop clerk told Adam Zaborowski on Friday he had to wear a mask in the shop, the 35-year-old angrily refused. Instead, he grabbed two stogies, stormed outside \u2014 and then pulled a handgun and shot at the clerk, Bethlehem Township, Pa., police said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next day, cornered near his home, Zaborowski allegedly fired at police with an AK-47, sparking a wild shootout with at least seven officers that ended with him shot multiple times and under arrest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case is the latest violent incident tied to arguments over mandatory mask orders. But Zaborowski\u2019s reaction was driven by his own intense difficulty with the pandemic, his attorney claimed; before the shootout, Zaborowski had lost his job and had also recently lost custody of his child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe just wasn\u2019t dealing well with the loss of his job, the loss of his child, just not handling the pandemic well,\u201d John Waldron told the Express-Times on Sunday, while noting those factors didn\u2019t justify his violent conduct. \u201cI think he was getting stretched too tight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tensions around wearing masks have been mounting since early April, when the CDC began recommending face coverings to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus. (Video: Monica Akhtar\/Photo: Sarah Hashemi\/The Washington Post)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zaborowski\u2019s alleged rampage started Friday morning at Cigars International in Bethlehem Township, where he adamantly argued he didn\u2019t have to wear a mask, even after a clerk offered to serve him curbside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s crazy,\u201d said Tom Gallagher, who was shopping in the store at the time. \u201cIt\u2019s the mask. The guy was obviously anti-mask.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Zaborowski walked out without paying for his cigars, police say he fired his gun once in the air and twice at a clerk who confronted him outside. Multiple customers were also sitting outside the shop in the direction he fired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next morning, police and state troopers were waiting to arrest Zaborowski outside his home in Slatington, Pa., when he hopped in a truck and drove off, police told the Express-Times. When they stopped him nearby, he jumped out of the vehicle and started firing at police with the AK-47 and a semiautomatic handgun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBoth the Slatington Borough officer and troopers returned fire and struck Zaborowski,\u201d State Trooper Nathan Branosky said in a news release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Zaborowski was hit in the buttocks and leg, Waldron said, and is expected to recover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe fact that he got shot twice with non-life-threatening injures when he had an AK-47 and another handgun, Adam is very fortunate he ended up the way he did,\u201d Waldron told the Express-Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is now charged with 22 counts including attempted homicide, aggravated assault and robbery, the Express-Times reported, and is being held on $1 million bail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

WHITE PRIVILEGE: So let me get this straight a man ,😒🤔 white man, walks into a store was asked to put on a mask, REFUSES, STEALS then goes to his car an PULL A HANDGUN and shoots AT the cashier. Watch this part though. THE NEXT DAY POLICE GO TO ARREST HIM! 😒 He SHOOTS […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.funminews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/White-Police-Peacefully-arrest-white-man-who-shot-at-them.jpg?fit=691%2C388&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.funminews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}