Michigan barber keeps cutting despite state order to close shop

An unrepentant Michigan barber, who’s had customers lining up for his services, says he plans to keep cutting despite a state order to shut down.

The state told 77-year-old Karl Manke to close Friday, saying the shop was an “imminent danger” to public health, according to the Detroit News.

But Manke said he would remain open, the paper reported.

The state attorney general’s office said if the shop did not shutter, it would request a court order to close it.

“Mr. Manke’s actions are not a display of harmless civil disobedience,” spokesman Ryan Jarvi told the newspaper. “His actions are counterproductive to the collective effort businesses and communities everywhere have made to slow the spread of COVID-19, and by opening the doors to his business, he’s putting the lives of many more Michiganders at risk.”

Manke had reopened the business May 4 in violation of the state’s stay-at-home order.

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