On March 29, 2022 at 2:45 pm, a female patron at the Los Angeles Wilmington Branch Public Library had law enforcement called on her by the branch’s head librarian, Ms. Denice Nossettt because the patron refused to comply with a directive from Ms. Nossett to adjust her face mask..

The attempt by Ms. Nossett to have the patron arrested from the library was frustrated by the Los Angeles Police Department’s officers refusal to arrest the patron and their subsequent refusal to have the patron removed, following discussions with their supervisor(s) which found that the patron was not in violation of any law of Los Angeles County nor any law of the State of California whatsoever.

To Ms. Nossett’s clearly apparent chagrin, the patron was not arrested, not even in the citizen’s-type arrest which the head librarian, Ms. Nossett requested, nor was the patron asked to leave the library by the LAPD officers. In fact, the patron was not even asked by the LAPD to put on her mask, as she had fully removed it by the time that the officers arrived and still had the mask off when the LAPD left the library.

The controversial California mask mandate, which has been dubbed draconian by its disaffected critics, ended in Los Angeles County earlier in the month of March, after a lengthy period following the lifting of the mask mandate even earlier by the State of California.

The controversy of the Los Angeles County agencies’ implementation of the mandate has been a daily topic of active Southern Californian protests and negative media coverage.

The Los Angeles Public School System lifted their mandatory face mask mandate from their students several days before this incident at the Wilmington Branch Library. The teacher’s union had attempted to disingenuously present their own agency's mandate, which they assigned an indefinite duration to, as a public safety issue that their own undisclosed health experts were insisting upon. The LAUSD’s mask mandate was eventually revealed for its true character when it ended as a botched bid by the district’s teacher’s union to gain bargaining advantage with the LA County to procure a list of demands, which both the public and school district found disagreeable.

This latest false arrest attempt by the Wilmington Public Library follows a pattern of improprieties and legal boundaries overstepping by the government agency workers, with the blessings of their parent agencies, in an effort to expand their roles into a self-designed realm as creators, enforcers, interpreters and final authorities of their own private public health and derivative criminal public policies. This move has been encouraged by their unions and fueled by the tendency of the government agencies to staff their ranks with employees whose misconduct has resulted in the bringing of several successful lawsuits against the County, resulting from County worker misconduct and their overstepping of legal boundaries under state and federal legal theories which do not require the permission of the government agency in order to have lawsuits brought against them.

John Szabo, the LAPL’s Chief Librarian, by his own public and publicly revealed polices, has encouraged these types of incidents by the workers under his purview with policies that have been largely criticized following the release of the LAPL’s high expenditures on law enforcement, in an attempt to convert the LAPD into Los Angeles Public Library’s own private security agency in order to selectively enforce similar demographically-targeted polices in recent years.

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