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Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Aug 7, 2020

The Metro Nashville Police Department issued its first citation for a mask violation in the city’s entertainment district on Wednesday night. But it did not cite any of the young honky tonk-goers crowding the sidewalks, instead citing and arresting a 61-year-old homeless man, WPLN reports. Court records show Joseph Bryant was booked on a $500 bail but charges were dropped at a hearing the next day. The Nashville Community Bail Fund criticized the police decision to single out a homeless person while hundreds of mask-less revelers frequent Lower Broadway each night with impunity. The group paid Bryant’s bail.