Today we filed suit in the case of the “Outlaw Barber,” Winerd “Les” Jenkins, a 73 year old combat veteran and former 27-year Deputy U.S. Marshall, who was arrested for refusing to close his barbershop during the Governor’s lockdown in April of 2020. We filed a Section 1983 civil rights lawsuit in federal court, in the Northern District of West Virginia. He was ultimately arrested by two deputies from the Berkeley County Sheriff’s Office, who transported Mr. Jenkins for incarceration and charged him with “obstructing” an officer. The prosecuting attorney’s office of that county then aggressively prosecuted Mr. Jenkins for the better part of a year, until the judge finally dismissed the charge in January of 2021, finding that it would be a violation of Mr. Jenkins’s constitutional rights to prosecute him for violating the governor’s executive order. Read more, including the full lawsuit and watch the body cam: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2021/05/20/the-outlaw-barber-arrested-for-refusing-to-close-during-the-lockdown-files-civil-rights-lawsuit/ Part 1 Video with the body cam footage: https://youtu.be/svB9CkUl0Gg #CivilRightsLawsuit #Lockdowns #FalseArrest