You're sitting on a subway train and someone puts on a mask like this and comes in, you don't know if they're going to be committing a crime, they're going to have a gun.

I'm a strong supporter of the decision of stopping a mask on our subway system, a mask in protests.

Cowards cover their faces. If you believe in something, then stand up and show

your face. Like hairy woman who is immunocompromised says she was harassed while wearing a mask

in public. This comes one day after General Assembly passed a bill that would punish people

who wear masks to conceal their identity while committing a crime.

WRL's Carly Haynes is live at the state Capitol after speaking with the woman who says she was threatened.

And Carly, this bill is not even state law yet. The

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here today with my co-hosts, Artie Verkan.

Hello. And today, the three of us are going to be checking back in on the recent

surge in anti-mask sentiment and anti-mask legislation emerging in state legislatures across the U.S.

Last month, we talked about the mask ban working its way through North Carolina, and we're

going to revisit that today and then discuss the resurgence of a call for a mask ban in New York.

Since we last spoke about these proposed laws or changes to existing laws, there have actually

been a couple of significant updates.

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