NEW: Dallas salon owner, who had defied her state's shutdown orders, walked out of jail on Thursday after Texas Gov. Abbott amended his executive order on coronavirus restrictions.
had also been jailed for violating his shut down owners in Laredo, but their cases didn't garner nearly as much attention as Luther's. Undercover police arrested Castro-Garcia, 31, for offering nail service and Mata, 20, allegedly for agreeing to perform eyelash service.
“We should not be taking these people and put them behind bars, these people who have spent their life building up a business," Abbott told reporters in the Oval Office.
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